Everything considered, same SWE level (L4) and with no TC numbers yet, which one would you pick and why? Note: Netflix doesn’t have L4, but Senior SWE instead.
Netflix has no L4
Yep, good point. Edited.
They're all great companies so I would pick the one that has most interesting work. Also Facebook and Netflix are more cutthroat so expect longer work hours.
That’s not true. All my colleagues and me come around 10 and leave around 5-5:30 and we don’t work after that since almost everyone has kids. Compared with all my friends at Google, they work much longer and two of them who advanced to T6 from T4 within 3 years usually work extremely long hours but they did get nice TC tho.
I would only work at Netflix if they let me chill there.
I’m super chill here lol
Lots of google employees on blind so majority of the vote is going to be google :). Pick interesting team/good manager.
Netflix’s WLB is much better than that of Google and FB. At least my friends at Google and FB all work much longer than me. At Netflix, at least in my team, people usually come around 9:30-10:00 and leave around 17:00-17:20 and people don’t really work after that since almost everyone has kids (yes we are senior or....another word... older)
You can expect the tempo to be faster where the business is growing and slower where mature. It's true for every company.
How about Facebook L5 vs Google L4?
Been around the fang block. Would recommend google. But I prioritize work life balance now, so you may disagree.
You saying the others have worse WLB but higher TC?
Facebook comes to mind^^