1. Comp 2. Less toxic as compared to others 3. Slow moving resulting in less pressure (in certain parts)
1. Hires less and only senior people. So no growth path for management and IC. 2. Extreme top down. Nothing happens without CEO's decision making 3. Bi-yearly launches which are better suited for hardware world than software. 4. Lot of super senior people in rest and vest mode.
Does it make sense? I thought HT was on the verge of folding
Please help rate my offer. I was offered a fulltime position at Uber as part of the acquisition but I also have 3 offers from other companies currently in consideration. Uber’s offer is the lowest (same as my current Postmates comp). I’m factoring TC and brand recognition of the company for any de...Read more
Last pre-IPO company I worked for accelerated vesting by 1 year on exit event (acquisition or IPO) Do companies still do this in offers? What about the big pre-IPO companies like Uber and Airbnb?
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I heard that facebook, airbnb, uber already dont have qe/sdet positions and recently LinkedIn (following Microsoft acquisition) is doing the same. Is this the future of the industry where there will be dedicated tools team, bunch of domain expert quality guys who have basic understanding of coding a...Read more
Hello everyone, I recently laid off from Amazon and looking for new opportunities in talent acquisition (technical recruiter) I have applied to thousands of jobs but no call from companies. I saw position for technical recruiter on Airbnb but before applying, I want to check if anyone can give me a ...Read more
80% of the startups will fail to succeed in a lucrative manner, No IPO or acquisition. Failure Rates VC funded : 75% Series B+ : Startups 80% Unicorns(Billion$ valuation): >; 90% The ones which do IPO, C3.ai Robinhood Uber* Lyft* Coupang Compass Poshmark Blend labs Lemonade There are success s
My time at Yahoo has been.... interesting. I came in as an acquisition and its been a complete cluster****. So I'm looking for my next adventure. Only requirements is that it's in SF at this point. Talking to a friend at Uber tomorrow. Probably a good idea to avoid Twitter at this point. Also th...Read more
Uber, Lyft, Airbnb may go IPO soon, sometimes I feel these are over valued and risky to join at this point. What are your thoughts? UBER: Eats is really not a big mover, self driving takes years to become main stream, say 3 years. So this is a super long game even if they IPO in 2019. Lyft: fierce...Read more
Looking for referrals to any tech companies for Talent Acquisition/Technical Recruiter roles. YOE: 7 (6 years at a #BAT company [Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent] and 1 year at a global logistics company) My contract is up and I’m not renewing as I want to get back into tech recruiting. Thanks! #recruiti...Read more
Candidates are 1. Airbnb. They overreacted during the pandemic, sold their equity at a fire sale, laid off 25% of their employees and then rehired some of them a month later, and didn’t go IPO when they could at a hefty valuation. Now they are trying to go IPO in a middle of a pandemic when traveli...Read more
^As coding skills become commoditized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUVNfTHHCXA around 4:50. Context is a video he did on Airbnb, the 2 original founders of which have a design background and hired a third cofounder to do the engineering. The company also employs former Apple exec Johnny Ives' ...Read more
Edit: accepted Anduril Have a few offers on the table. Would appreciate any insights on making a decision. Companies: Anduril AirBNB Databricks Boston Dynamics Optimizing for: Career growth Ownership Working on new and exciting problems Dynamic / fast paced work environment Developing leaders...Read more
Hello! My current company is running out of runway and searching for acquisitions. Given that, my machine learning engineer position may be no more so I'm looking for jobs - remote or in the LA area. I have 5 years of end-to-end machine learning development including cloud deployment. Engineering ...Read more
Hi Blind Community, Looking for referrals to FAANGMULA+ or Unicorns. All of my experience is in marketing. Mostly on growth and acquisition. I've worked at a cloud kitchen startup and am currently in B2B SaaS. TC: 80K YOE: 3.5 Feel free to drop a comment and I can DM you my info and the role I'm ...Read more
Hello! My current company is running out of runway and searching for acquisitions. Given that, my machine learning engineer position may be no more so I'm looking for jobs - remote or in the LA area. I have 5 years of end-to-end machine learning development including cloud deployment. Engineering ...Read more
It seems like I might be able to get promoted faster at fb. Trying to think of this from a long term career perspective instead of short term tc. —— Struggling to choose between e4 Facebook offer and l4 Pinterest. Both SWE - ML. I want to optimize for career growth, but still want some WLB. Bot...Read more
I am in a high layoff risk org within Vmware and may get impacted since we are going through acquisition. I have been trying for jobs everywhere but seems hiring is slowing down and competition is fierce. Just interviewed at aws but that too went into hiring freeze today. I am starting to feel that ...Read more
I have been a huge Silicon Valley tech innovation admirer and supporter for years. I was also like many who got deluded that Uber, Airbnb etc are innovation as I loved using them. Until the post from the guy on LinkedIn came into my feed one day 3 years ago. I first ignored him. He talks very opi...Read more
Doordash went public at $50 billion+ valuation last week. The craziest part? It is it is likely a bargain. Time for a post. 1) Some history: Doordash was founded in 2013 by Tony Xu, Evan Moore, Andy Fang and Stanley Tang. At that time it was known as Palo Alto Delivery service. 2) From the begin...Read more