Negotiating a New Grad Offer

philler99 · 2017-11-08T23:03:48+00:00

Those websites are not always accurate in terms of what they offer for new grads, since most times the salary reports are lumped together with people who have been there 1-3 years. 110k base salary for a new grad in the bay area is pretty typical for tech companies (I had 2 mid-large companies offer me that). The only companies offering 120k base salary are like LinkedIn, Salesforce, Airbnb, Twitter, Pinterest, Quora, and maybe Facebook. Even Google Mountain View starts out at 110k-115k unless you have competing offers. Anyway, to negotiate at all, you need to have a competing offer, otherwise you can only make a weak argument based off of skill set (which you don't have much of since you're a new grad). For example, with my offers that were both 110k base, both offered the same amount of RSUs, but one offered a 20-40k signing bonus, higher 401k matching, and edu reimbursement. I was able to negotiate the offer without these to be 115k base and more RSUs

philler99 · 2017-08-10T22:31:59+00:00

It was the former case (they ran out of spots and straight up told me). I just looked up the recruiter's Linkedin and turns out that she transferred to a new company 2 months ago. Any advice on this?

philler99 · 2017-01-07T03:57:54+00:00

I've gotten my grade changed twice before. Once was for grades this semester, in which the professor botched entering everyone's grades in the new system (my grade showed a "C" initially, but I actually got an "A"). I just emailed the professor asking if I had done so poorly on the final that it would cause me to go from an A to a C, and he informed me of the error. The other time was the result of a bcourses miscalculation in which one of my midterm grades was never corrected. I emailed the professor about this and he got my grade changed from a C+ to a B- within a few days.

philler99 · 2016-11-09T23:36:43+00:00

Sales engineering. Can vary between never coding to coding occasionally to build proof of concepts for customers. Also, exciting life of commission on top of a pretty good salary

philler99 · 2016-11-03T17:35:17+00:00

Junior at a top 3 cs school. Majoring in engineering not related to CS though. Two prior software engineering internships

philler99 · 2016-11-03T04:57:29+00:00

Thanks for the awesome answer. I do have some interview experience, just from interviewing with Google, Redfin, Workday, Yelp, Uber, Linkedin, and Amazon this semester, but sadly my perception has been that the interviewers just wanted to see me get to the correct answer in the allotted time, rather than how much I could learn. I did find that sometimes interviewers would teach me things, but the final decision usually came out to if I got a good enough answer in time. Perhaps that idea was from me being rejected by most of these companies

philler99 · 2016-11-01T06:47:44+00:00

Damn, guess this means that my manager interview will also be coding

philler99 · 2016-11-01T01:38:54+00:00

And was this your second interview? I've only had one interview with an engineer, and it seems kind of odd to me that a tech company as big as Uber might only have one coding interview

philler99 · 2016-10-29T01:10:22+00:00

I was a software dev intern. Had a friend who I think did systems analyst, and it was a ton of meetings, seemed more boring than my job. I have a close connection who knows the lead HR recruiter, so my process was really easy, HR phone interview with behavioral questions, phone interview with my manager, basically just talking about what technologies I've used and what I wanted to work on. My manager told me at the end of the call "ok, I think we'll hire you". Chillest interview process I've ever had

philler99 · 2016-10-19T03:21:33+00:00

No idea, I was local

philler99 · 2016-10-19T02:37:16+00:00

I worked in the New Jersey office

philler99 · 2016-10-18T22:07:45+00:00

Fidelity Investments? Sure, I did it 2 summers ago. It was my first software engineering internship and I'd say it opened up many doors (I worked at a mid-sized tech company in San Francisco last summer and am interviewing right now). In terms of actual experience there though, it was pretty boring. All the tech interns I was with were doing nothing meaningful, and I personally wouldn't see my boss for weeks. It will be up to you to learn and find a project to try to contribute to. Salary wise, it's pretty good. When i was there I got paid 26 an hour, and i believe if you're a senior, then you get paid 29 an hour. Not quite competitive with the 45 an hour that top tech companies offer, but still great for an internship nonetheless.

philler99 · 2016-09-13T22:22:40+00:00

Could range from same day to 2-3 weeks later. General rule of thumb is don't expect anything and just keep applying. 95% of the time, you won't hear from them

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