Uber vs. Capital One Offers
Hey all, offer comparison time! I am interested in everyone's opinion on offers I've received from #Uber and #CaptialOne the past few weeks. I'm leaning towards Uber because I can retain all the friendships and community I've built in Seattle. Still, I would like to know if I am missing an opportunity at Captial One. I'm especially interested in hearing from folks at Capital One! Personal Targets: Career growth and technical leadership. I am also interested in transitioning into technical leadership. I am iffy on traditional management roles and am more interested in architectural/SME roles. Capital One may have a better on-ramp into management, but that still needs clarification. I would be working on a series of tools to manage exceptions in financial systems (think of an escalation and management process for exceptions in the process that have significant legal implications). My manager manages 16 people, and I would co-lead eight engineers to spin them off into a team under my leadership. Uber is far more technical, and I would be working on making it easier to manage, modify, migrate, and deploy Cassandra instances. I would be working to bring these features to the OpenSource repository. I also live in Seattle, so I would not have to move. Uber: Location: Seattle, WA Role: SR SWE Comp: RSU: 400k/4 yrs Sign-On Bonus 25k for the first two years Base: 219k Bonus: 35k/year Capital One: Location: Washington, DC Role: Lead Software Engineer Comp: RSU: N/A Sign-On Bonus: 40k for the first two years Base: 214k Bonus: 27k/year Moving Bonus: 15k YOE: 8 TC: 220k #Comparison #OfferEvaluation #offers EDIT: Updated Sal to Base
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Don't even consider capital one that's for people that can't get into a real tech company. Everyone that works there knows it's not that good but not bad. It would be major step down career wise and they offer no equity
What is sal here? Is it the base?
Capital one DC?
Probably Tysons
That's what I was thinking too. An office in DC would be worth it. Tysons, no.
A casual glance at the sad posts by C1 employees on blind will tell you all you need to know :)
And what is your opinion? How is engineering at Capital One? How is management?
Just look at the posts by C1 employees on Blind. Twice a year stack ranking, constant churns, multiple sudden layoffs, not to speak of how the McLean office is a traffic safety risk (one employee hit and injured multiple employees with her car this week). There are hard working engineers and PMs, but management is terrible. It's a very political culture. The people who succeed the most are usually those who join right out of college or are ex- McKinsey, BCG etc.
Also, DC is much more expensive than Seattle. Considering cost of living in DC, your Uber offer is more valuable. You are also not getting any stock at C1
Where are you pulling this information from? I'm a DC native with family who live in the area. The only cost of living that is more expensive in DC is housing - and not even by that much at the end of the day. TL:DR, DC is roughly equivalent in COL expenses with Seattle.
Not just housing, but groceries and eating out are both much more expensive in DC. Take it from a DC resident. Your family might be living in the DC area, but that can mean miles away in Northern VA or Rockville, where of course the suburbs are cheaper. The actual DC city is much more expensive than Seattle.
Is this a serious question?
Cap 1 isn’t even a tech company moving there is career suicide This is coming from another 8 yoe distributed systems swe. I have a lot of respect for Ubers platform team and it’ll set you up well in the future
Why is this a comparison? Obvious choice is Uber.
C1 is where tech careers go to die. Wouldn't recommend
Everyone knows Safeway is where the tech skills are honed
not so Safeway to hone skills