Capital One TDP (Richmond VA)
123k Base + 25k SO + 3-7k Bonus
FYTC: 151k
Rec TC: 126k
Pros: Pure SWE, WLB, LCOL
Cons: potentially boring work
Applied Intuition Defense FDE (Arlington VA)
111k Base + 148k equity (quarterly vested over 4 years with 1 year cliff) + 12750 SO
FYTC: 166k
Rec TC: 143k
Can increase/decrease base by trading for equity, get $5 vested for every $1 base traded.
Pros: everyone is cracked, location, more interesting work, ownership
Cons: WLB, liquidizing equity, less technical work?
Looking to optimize for exits into big tech