u/Apprehensive_Bug_906

New grad: Interned with the same start up for 6 months as an ML engineer. Full time return offer after graduating and been working for 1 month. Received an ML engineer offer from a very large tech company I had been interviewing with before I received a return offer originally and will likely take it. Do I even put the 1 month of full-time at the start up on my linkedin or resume? Will it look bad for future job applications a few years down the line?

Just saw a post asking about which laptop you get in the India office. Which laptop do you get in San Diego?

If I have set my preferred start date on workday, when well I get contacted with my official team and start date?

Recently got an offer for a new grad position and I am deciding between a fully remote start-up position or a relocation to the SD office.

What does a day in the life look like at the office? Are you constantly in meetings? Do you get time to work alone unbothered? Are you expected to start and stay until a certain time?

I need some realistic advice and new perspective on two offers:

Start-up:

• Location: Fully remote, headquarters based in Palo Alto, some travel which I do enjoy
• Title: Solutions Architect - AI/ML Systems
• Total comp: 200k (162k base + 38k bonus + 30k shares vested over 4 years but not liquid)
• Has been around for 12 years
• Stable growth, great customer portfolio

Large tech company:

• Location: need to relocate, fully in person 5 days a week
• Title: Machine Learning Engineer
• Total comp: 236k (158k base + 25k sign-on + 10k relocation + 10k performance bonus + $33k RSUs per year for 3 years)
• Great name recognition to start my career
• Great title and work

Comes down to this: Is name recognition + title + 36k worth being fully in person and away from my family and girlfriend who I plan on proposing to this summer. Name recognition could not be as big of a factor as I am making it out to be, the start-up hires a lot from Microsoft and Oracle, and has lots of company alum in FAANG currently