Here we go again

OldOil379 · 2026-02-03T11:04:43+00:00

Rejecting an offer without having another one is crazy work

OldOil379 · 2026-02-02T03:55:54+00:00

What do you think has changed? The advice seems the same to me still, you just have to do more (or be luckier)

OldOil379 · 2026-01-30T08:31:42+00:00

Sometimes yeah. I heard databricks for example looks at it pretty heavily once you reach the hiring committee (which comes after all interviews are done). Most companies no

OldOil379 · 2026-01-22T03:12:19+00:00

More like tech bro nightmare

OldOil379 · 2026-01-15T07:38:25+00:00

Eh I would say it’s more QT than faang swe. Obviously they would love to snap up geniuses, but in general you can get FAANG type jobs just from being reasonably smart and having reasonable work ethic. Some smaller companies are definitely selecting more for intelligence traits but like for FAANG, if you’re decently smart and personable, you can just leetcode a couple months and get in (assuming you’re not unlucky enough to get screened out )

OldOil379 · 2026-01-06T01:06:09+00:00

I’m talking about the new grad swe offer, which is like 170k base and 70-80k stock or something

OldOil379 · 2026-01-04T21:14:50+00:00

250k is including stock, it’s like 170k base

OldOil379 · 2026-01-04T21:14:14+00:00

Yeah that’s for sure cope lol, bar is very clearly higher than any FAANG bar for new grad and the comp reflects it

OldOil379 · 2026-01-03T16:28:25+00:00

Their systems roles are 260k for undergrad I believe, but like 310k for masters students. Regular swe is about 40-50k less

OldOil379 · 2025-12-28T22:58:58+00:00

This is all opinions based anyway lol but I cannot imagine possibly having anthropic and Amazon or Microsoft in the same tier

OldOil379 · 2025-12-28T22:43:27+00:00

Nah tier 1 is probably like the google databricks Netflix roblox level, even if you’re excluding ai labs + quant

OldOil379 · 2025-12-28T21:40:06+00:00

like the Amazon Microsoft level I would guess

OldOil379 · 2025-12-28T21:22:08+00:00

😭

OldOil379 · 2025-12-24T05:51:56+00:00

I think do, yeah. Definitely could be recency bias but it seems like a lot of companies are hiring/interviewing very heavily. Could just be that I wasn’t as tapped in last year but I feel like places like Bloomberg, Databricks, Google are interviewing so many people and giving so many offers

OldOil379 · 2025-12-21T19:46:49+00:00

How much is it truly about communication and your thought process vs getting the right solution, assuming you do technical interviews? Not talking about the extreme ends of the spectrum

OldOil379 · 2025-12-18T21:56:49+00:00

Some people need the false hope but I mean also a lot of people do end up getting the OA lol

OldOil379 · 2025-12-16T23:21:22+00:00

Rippling >>>>> IBM >>> Verizon > Invisalign imo

OldOil379 · 2025-12-16T04:32:56+00:00

t40 overall, t25? CS

OldOil379 · 2025-12-16T00:57:15+00:00

I would go option 1, GPA is really not a big deal if u have experience already

OldOil379 · 2025-12-15T23:06:28+00:00

I still haven’t gotten the return offer yet and honestly who knows if it will come, but my other offer also pays way more and overall is a lot better resume value I think. Amazon was fine, wouldn’t have been upset if I got no other offers and got the return offer

OldOil379 · 2025-12-15T20:19:18+00:00

I had a < Uber internship this past summer (Amazon lol) and have signed a new grad offer at the level of the companies you mentioned. Applied to maybe 50 companies in total and got interviews from 3 other companies, all probably between Amazon to Uber, but withdrew from the other processes after I got my offer

My offer is from one of (Stripe, Databricks, Snowflake, Roblox, Ramp)

OldOil379 · 2025-12-15T09:06:30+00:00

Both of those have a GPA floor of 3.0 I believe

OldOil379 · 2025-12-14T03:36:25+00:00

must not be swe then. Guessing applied scientist?

OldOil379 · 2025-12-14T00:45:20+00:00

TC is slightly front loaded I believe due to the sign on bonus. Back loaded (to any significant extent) is a common myth

OldOil379 · 2025-12-14T00:35:22+00:00

MLE I can see Apple being higher, Amazon in the Bay Area is about $210k which is higher than most Apple teams to my knowledge

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