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Please evaluate this initial offer for Apple ICT3. I think I was low balled, but I want to take more opinions. Currently Sr. MTS at VMware, received Apple ICT3. I was expecting to get to ICT4 but seems like team thinks upper end of ICT3 is more apt. Also, I think it is because I don’t have any counter offers yet.
Received offer
Base: 185k
Sign on: 40k
RSU: 160k/4 years (Here is where I think it is low)
Location: Cupertino,CA
Current TC
229k
YOE: 3.5 years US / 6.5 overall(similar roles)
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The challenge is that most companies do what’s most beneficial to the bottom line. The collective we, as in the country’s workforce, can’t compete with the rest of the world. We simply can’t, and it’s not because we don’t have talent, but because we are a drop in the bucket. Look at it this way: if, say Harvard, truly recruited the best geniuses in the world, US based students would not even crack 10%. It’s not that we don’t have smart students, but statistically it is impossible for us to have more than that given the relatively poor education rating, as well as less than 5% of the worlds population. Same applies to jobs: unless there are restrictions in place that would truly be reflective of the massive discrepancy in talent, we are shooting ourselves in the foot. And it's not that hard to achieve: raise the difference in salary to 3x-4x, and see how many sponsored applicants still come through. And if the companies will abuse off-shoring, tariff their products (which surprise-surprise they still sell to US firms the most part), and funnel those fund competition in US.
I’m not surprised there was a person that had just finish working at a zoo, as a zoo keeper and was promoted to lead engineer of the department. Company market cap of 500-600 billion.