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Help with rating my offer
Please help me with these two offers.
Both remote at lcol area. My location is considered Tier 4 apparently. I have almost 15 years of experience as a sdet
CompanyA
Base: 125k
Bonus:12.5k
Stock:27k/year. Vesting every 3 years
Signing: 20k
Company B:
Base: 150k
Bonus:15k
Stock:5k/year.
Signing:15k
Both have similar wlb.
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eightysixerSoftware Engineer
For LCOL these are great offers. I have 11 YOE as a SDE, I'm in a medium-high COL area, I make less than this.
Company B is higher cash comp and higher total comp, not to mention the signing bonus.
Company A will come out ahead if the stock grows by more than 25%. That's where Company B's offer is weak, not much upside available to you on stock (but then also not much downside).
The "vesting every 3 years" part confuses me. Are you saying you get 27k per year in stock but you can't touch any of it until after three years? I could live with yearly vesting but anything less than that strikes me as a red flag.
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