Offer Eval: Twilio vs PANW vs Nvidia vs Better

Jun 30, 2021 5 Comments

Currently a Principal Engineer at a Tier 3 company.

Current TC: $170k
Location: Bay Area
YoE: ~10

I have the following offers.

Palo Alto Networks: Principal Software Engineer (Big data)
Base - $210k
Annual Bonus - 15% (based on performance) + refreshers
RSU - $230k (for 4 years)
Sign on - $50k
TC - 1st year (including bonus) - $350k
TC - 2nd year - $300k
Pros: Big data role, fairly open work, new team, hybrid WFH
Cons: Cisco folks, low salary.

Nvidia: Software Security (IC4)
Base - $225k
Annual Bonus - 0
RSU - $360k (for 4 years)
Sign on - $35k
Refreshers - 25-50% of initial grant/4
TC - 1st year (including bonus) - $350k
TC - 2nd year - $315k
Pros: Great HM, good team, hybrid WFH
Cons: Security domain.

Twilio: Staff Software Engineer (API)
Base - $215k
RSU - $520k (for 4 years)
Annual Bonus - NIL
Refreshers - 25-50% of initial grant/4 (Seems too good to be true).
TC - 1st year - $345k
TC - 2nd year - $345k
Pros: Salary, Critical work
Cons: On-Call for 1 week every 5 weeks; No remote option (not sure why!)

Better.com: L6 (Remote from anywhere - same salary)
Base - $215k
Annual Bonus - 12.5% ($26,875)
RSU - $375k (for 4 years)
Refreshers - Could not get a number but it does exist.
TC - 1st year (including bonus) - $335,625
TC - 2nd year - $335,625
Pros: Pre-IPO so RSU might 2x or 0.5x; Remote from anywhere and retain the pay
Cons: volatile. Not sure how the company is going to fare post IPO

Nvidia HR refused to bump me up to IC5 and he advocated for huge stock upside during the coming years. I just need to convince myself of choosing the Security domain.
Everything about Twilio is good except that the HM insists to be onsite 5 days a week. I spoke to the former members of the team and the feedback reg. HM is positive.

Which of these companies have a good stock upside in the coming years. Which one would you choose. ?

#better.com #twilio #paloaltonetworks #nvidia

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