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I turned down my offers from Google at Amazon because I value WLB and being able to continue with my freelance work and content creation. I figured working at a bank would be congruent with this sentiment.

You do cool work, btw. Just be careful, Shopify seems to be real layoff happy. I've even had some of your staff engineers hmu on Linkedin for a position and I've been having to say thanks but no thanks.

Because Monzo will pay more than Google or Amazon in the UK.

I didn't think anyone paid more than Google?

Facebook pay better than Google in London from what I've heard.

This hasn't been the case in my experience interviewing at all of those three -- both Google and Amazon's comp for a similar role and level at Monzo were way higher.

Edit: to clarify, I didn't actually end up interviewing at Monzo because the recruiter said no pretty much right away on hearing my salary ask.

So let me ask you. Is the only reason that you're at Shopify that you couldn't get an offer from Google or Amazon?

I did apply to Google before and didn't get an offer so yes I guess that is literally true.