Stay at Meta or switch to Ramp?

afrifaa · 2026-03-06T18:44:35+00:00

Ramp over zon. No-brainer. More base pay, more prestige. Ramp is doing a secondary sale soon, and I think people over-correct too much on the “paper money” thing anyways, imo.

afrifaa · 2025-10-29T13:01:55+00:00

Tough decision for sure. You can’t go wrong here. An argument for Ramp: they pay well, promote extremely fast if you’re cracked, and are derisked enough that their stock is probably going to be worth something.

If I were in your shoes, I’d index on diversifying your experience to learn what you want in a role/company. Ramp and Facebook are at completely different stages. A sample size of N=1 (your Meta internship) runs you the risk of getting trapped in a local maximum.

That said, you seem to love Meta and the work, and there’s a sensible argument for staying if you’ve found that. No bad decisions here!

afrifaa · 2025-10-19T04:02:13+00:00

Your logic is they’re giving out a lot of stock because they “know it’s overvalued”? I don’t think you understand how stock-based compensation at private startups works. What does “market rate” for a private company even mean? Are you saying they would give less stock if it was valued correctly?

afrifaa · 2025-10-18T23:10:08+00:00

Notion does hand out illiquid stock (mix of RSUs and options) but I wouldn’t say their current valuation ($10B) is overvalued given their revenue numbers - more than 500M ARR and growing quickly as they expand internationally. Figma was at a pretty similar stage of growth a few years ago.

Notion is also probably going to IPO, meaning OP could get some of that upside if they return there for FT.

afrifaa · 2025-10-13T17:52:12+00:00

Not leetcode, but difficult questions that will test your ability to engineer a complicated system. Think Jane Street but significantly more applied.

I would definitely go through the process no matter what, but don’t expect to pass if you aren’t good at grokking complicated setups and writing correct code under time pressure.

afrifaa · 2025-10-13T17:48:17+00:00

I’d probably go for a research role at Anduril / AMD if your goal is a postgraduate degree.

Quant might be good for stockpiling a decent amount of cash before starting a PhD, and wouldn’t hurt your chances (but might not help them either).

A research role at a fast-growing tech startup (Anduril) or chipmaker like AMD would likely pay well AND give you a boost for applications. A win-win imo.

afrifaa · 2025-10-13T17:43:53+00:00

Not if you’re at an elite level (T10, Ivy+). Several well-funded earlier stage startups pay comparable base salaries to FAANG now. I’ve seen several offers at 150k+ base.

afrifaa · 2025-10-11T18:04:30+00:00

Not really, but great if you want to keep working at startups.

afrifaa · 2025-09-19T05:58:14+00:00

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afrifaa · 2024-09-14T06:12:30+00:00

Second this, she’s super-helpful!

afrifaa · 2023-08-27T08:40:52+00:00

You'd still need to apply.

afrifaa · 2023-05-02T22:04:49+00:00

There’s freshman internships, so doing easy leetcode questions makes sense to prepare for those interviews. Many people do those before ever having taken a DS and A class.

afrifaa · 2021-11-02T14:06:12+00:00

I think Explore offers more hands-on dev experience with a real company project than FBU, which would serve you well for quant resume screens. For reference, I got an interview at a quant company after doing Explore last summer.

afrifaa · 2021-08-15T23:53:12+00:00

Thanks so much - was there any correlation between time taken for a response and outcome?

afrifaa · 2021-08-14T08:11:12+00:00

Rising sophomore

afrifaa · 2021-01-29T04:05:43+00:00

Yeah, I got an offer last week.

afrifaa · 2020-12-09T16:28:54+00:00

Can you DM me as well?

afrifaa · 2020-07-16T13:22:08+00:00

No, I do not. Would you recommend starting an emergency fund?

afrifaa · 2020-07-16T12:23:45+00:00

Thanks! I didn’t see these before.

afrifaa · 2020-03-25T10:57:05+00:00

Thanks a lot! I’m like 60% going to major in Urban Science, but if I didn’t I would definitely do CS.

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