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- People with 7 figure salary. How is your life? How do you think about money now? How much do you typically save annually? What kind of things do you spend money on that you didn't spend money on before (private cook? house manager?) ?
- vote 7 figure swe salary - how many years? From starting new grad at 250k, how many years until you can make 1 mil/year as an IC?
- COVID showed WFH works. why do we still have managers? Why do we still have EMs/ directors/ VPs? companies waste money paying them 7 figure salaries that could otherwise be used for R&D right? We are in 2022, not 1922 right?
- Getting a divorce in California. What things should I consider / tip I’ve been married for 7 years and it’s just not working. My spouse also makes a six figure salary and should be financially stable after we split. What tips do people have?
- Help! Salary expectations for mid-level UXer? I just started looking at new positions, and it seems like every UX job is looking for someone with 5-7 years of experience, or someone fresh out of school. Because of that, I’m also having a hard time figuring out what the market rate would be for someone in my situation. TLD: Based off the info b
- Salary guidence I have 7 years in marketing and 12 years of content creation. Im moving out to the bay area and need to figure out decent base salary to work for San Fran. #recruiting
- Facebook e5 lowballed? I accepted the following offer. My initial research from (https://blog.step.com/2016/04/08/an-open-source-project-for-tech-salaries/) said they are giving me about median salary but now after accepting the offer I feel i have been dramatically lowballed. Need help to figure out where I am at. Base:
- Bay area salary decoder I am based in London and I keep seeing high salary figures for those based in Bay Area. For example, there was a recent M1 FB offer post talking about 500k+ TC per year apart from sign on bonus. And I have also seen people being paid millions. I am wondering now (1)what % of those 7+Million Bay Are
- vote Tech is the wrong path for me to go if I want to optimize TC? I have friends that are planning to go into consulting or finance, and from the research I’ve done, they all seem to be guaranteed 7+ figure comp after 10 yoe or so (MD/Partner) if they get into the big firms. Promotion seems to be very expected and virtually guaranteed if you perform ok and stay? I
- Millennials: how many of the people you went to high school with are now “entrepreneurs” Hell even people who went to college. My social media feed is full of people self promoting themselves and I know they haven’t got a degree! or if they do it’s like physical education; then WHAM out of no where they’re talking 7 figure salaries... I can’t be the only one. Why do these idiots buy in
- Department heads with equity - what’s your base salary? I lead marketing for a tech company and want to get a better idea of what’s a good base salary for someone in a similar situation. I make $80K salary and have just over 1% in equity. The company revenue has skyrocketed since I started from 5 to 7 figures at just a year old and were valued at over $
- Strategy: Fresh MBA grad getting hired Asking for a good friend... - Fresh MBA grad in strategic hr from BYU Marriott school of business - also has Masters in social work - 7 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker - fantastic listener, fantastic at change management What might be some good strategies for getting hired
- Google stock refreshers? I'm evaluating an offer for a PM level 7 at #Google. They mention annual stock refreshers but the recruitment teams don't know what they tend to be (they don't even know if they're based on a % of base salary). Can anyone at Google shed any light on it? Since this would factor into the TC I figured
- link Square Director / L8 total comp? (Non tech) What is total comp for director(L8) role at Square? I’m interviewing for a non tech role and trying to garner an idea of what’s the max I can expect for RSUs. Is $1m - $1.2m over four years even a possibility? And what’s the range for base salary? There’s very little info online. I checked Blind a
- Top India Startup Comp Guide for experienced professional Hi All, I am putting up the range of salaries offered by the startups in India for experienced roles - 7+ years which fall in Principal/Architect roles. Startups (top pay) :Architect/Principal: 1cr+ : Zeta, Navi, Dunzo SSE 2, MindTickle, Khatabook SDE4, Uber SSE, flipkart, Indeed, Airbnb (Staff?)
- Grafana Labs, information request I’d like to hear how the job looks like from inside, especially the fully remote. Tech stack (tho, I can mostly figure this out from outside too), WLB, interviews (process, difficulty - comments from people who didn’t pass or didn’t accept the offer are welcome too), salary ranges. Stuff like this.
- Broadcom IC Design -- next stop in career? I'm currently an ICB5/Principal based out of Bay Area. TC: 330K, but no bonus this year(?) and salary is pitifully low (140K) Manager has told me my salary is woefully low - they are trying to increase it but can only do 3-5% every year, but no raises this year anyway- LOL. Said no chance to ICB6
- Ebay Austin Texas Senior Data Scientist Pay I have a potential offer with ebay at austin tx for Senior Data Scientist role. I have 7 years of experience in Data Science. what would be a decent base salary and how much annual and signon bonus should i be negotiating. also what’s a decent number for rsus for the austin area. i tried doing re
- Apple offer expectations I just heard back from Apple San Diego that they are going to extend me an offer for the SEG group (Verification Engineer) .I have around 7 years of experience and I was wondering about the salary expectations. I am going to talk to the recruiter soon and before that wanted to know what ballpark fig
- DoorDash Finance Offer Review Got an offer for a finance role at DD and was hoping fellow dashers could help me figure out if this is a good one or not: Base: 160k RSU: 130k (over 4 years) Sign on: 15k TC: 192.5k Also the recruiter mentioned that they do salary increases twice a year of at least 3% each but I couldn’t confirm
- Apple London offer evaluation Apple London offer evaluation Position: Field test engineer (hardware) in London Yoe: 7 No sign on bonus 59k £ base 50k $ rsu over 4 years Relocation will be paid by them This is their first offer. I have not negotiated yet. I was expecting something around 85-90k as base salary. I am hoping you
- Lesson learned: Negotiate hard! 1) Got into FAANG early in my career. I thought to myself “holy shit! I made it to FAANG”. I accepted an offer for L2 non-tech operations role. Pay was shit but I was naive and thought it’s standard… but it wasn’t! New hire coworker came in as L3 with similar experience and was making 30% more. I a
- vote MBA Deciding Between IB and PM Hey everyone, I would love your help and comments. I am graduating from M7 business school. This summer I interned in PM and tech IB (mid-tier BB). I am deciding between 2 offers - Technical PM @ Amazon (~200-225K) vs. IB ($300-325K). I have thought through many of the pros and cons below but I am c
- Career Pathway?: Senior DevOps Engineer Hey 👋 I am currently working as a Senior DevOps Engineer at a fintech company; I’m trying to figure out which pathway I should take from here that would be worth it in the long run. I’m exploring specializing in Machine Learning or Big Data, a lot of my experienece is in python. Would management b
- MBA Deciding Between IB and PM Hey everyone, I would love your help and comments. I am graduating from M7 business school. This summer I interned in PM and tech IB (mid-tier BB). I am deciding between 2 offers - Technical PM @ Amazon (~200-225K) vs. IB ($300-325K). I have thought through many of the pros and cons below but I am c
- New Grad Entering Work Force Soon With a Lot of Debt Hello everyone, I am in my last semester of college and currently doing interviews for new grad software engineering positions. As I am getting closer to my dream job and hopefully a very good entry level salary, I’ve been starting to think about the debts I owe and how I am going to pay them. Cur
- vote Comparing Amazon's offers I am the OP of https://www.teamblind.com/post/ZipwoG0q and https://www.teamblind.com/post/Negotiating-with-Amazon-igDbQdsq Because of Amazon's unusual compensation structure, I figured that to properly compare Amazon's offer against other offers, I have to consider multiple market and personal perf
- How I went from 50k to 290K in TC as a Project Manager in 4 years Hey everyone, I’m currently a Technical Project Manager at Oracle that’s focused specifically on IT infrastructure/cloud. I’ve been super lucky and blessed to be able to say that within 4 years from starting as a non-technical project coordinator I’ve went from making 50k to now getting an offer of
- In Need of Advice Question for the tech veterans on Blind. I'm in a situation where I have 7 figures in equity and a salary that crushes most other tech companies. The area I live in is terrific, but there's one big problem: work. I've worked at a handful of companies previously and have never had an experience qu
- Underpaid? Can some semiconductor industry veterans please advise me? Background: B.E. Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Experience: 5.2 years (Firmware development, platform development and RF system design over 2 jobs before & after Masters) 7 months internship (full time internship developing the validati
- Offer rescinded, ~almost~, well, practically speaking totally rescinded This is with a mid-level public company. Day-1: Received call from the recruiter. During the conversation, recruiter asked my salary expectations, gave some numbers. I replied saying the salary depends on other components (RSUs, Bonus etc). I informed that due to other offers and my visa situ
- Mortgage with assets but no job I quit my job in February because it wasn't as described and my skills were atrophing due to lack of use. I didn't have time to leetcode/study and interview with the job and all the life stuff going on outside of work. I have a little over 2 years salary in liquid assets (stocks, crypto and cash) w
- link Noob questions about moving from defense to tech About me. Currently t3 at ngc. 136k Tc (including overtime) 6-7 yoe, ALL IN DEFENSE/AEROSPACE. Currently in early 30s, living in socal (not willing to relocate due to family reasons). My yoe has been all based on designing test systems, with 95% coding exp. all done in labview. I did a bit of c++ an
- I think I have Post Bad Boss Stress Disorder I recently quit a startup I joined after only 2 months. I feel like I have PTSD with bad managers. My manager at my last startup was seriously the worst manager I've had within my 5 years in tech. Here are some things he did: 1. Will throw you under the bus to protect himself. 2. All about numbe
- SWE Interview journey, offers, rejects, tips. Warning: long post. TL;DR; at the bottom. (*In Blind mobile app, only the first half of contents are shown because the post is too long. The second half has been added in the comments section. There is no issue reading this in desktop browser from teamblind website.) I started prepping for intervie
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
- best ways to buy bitcoin What is the best way to buy bitcoin? I've heard Robinhood is horrible :(
- Child care isn’t a transmission vector Largest peer-reviewed study, 57,335 child care centers: “No evidence of child care being a significant contributor to COVID19 transmission to adults—finding consistent with previous studies showing lack of assoc btwn school closures & transmission rates” https://twitter.com/nahasnewman/status/1323
- Referrals Hey everyone, looking for referrals I have a Masters degree in CS YOE - 3+ TC - 110k #Uber #Lyft #Dropbox #Microsoft #Netflix #Slack
- Any H4 applicants still waiting for Biometric appointment. Mine was filed in may 2020 and still waiting.
- Facebook WFH Options Hello Facebookers. Are you all allowed to WFH as per news or only some teams allow that? TC: 250k
- vote What kind of worker are you? Let’s face it. Some people in G and F don’t spend that much , especially 5 and 6. If You gave them 10M or 10B, they would live the same life. They just want more money even though they don’t need to spend that much. Some people work for a purpose like Dr. Fauci. He was downplayed but still want to
- link When Trump thought pandemic was going to end by easter.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546
- At what age did you buy life insurance Folks will be 34 soon thinking of getting a life insurance. Have a wife and 2 kids 😀 What age did you folks take one and which one would you folks recommend ? TC : 328k
- vote Stay or switch companies? I'm a designer, planning to switch to a smaller company. Even if I get promoted, I don't see myself growing much, and the work is getting boring. However, this company is less well known, but the culture seems awesome. Base: 101k Bonus: 2k Current TC: 103k New company. Base: 108k Bonus: 7k RSU- 5