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Airbnb Funding
- Given the recent fund raise, Is Airbnb a bad place to work? Not sure how this would impact new employees
- Is there a fund that would let me short some of the high fliers like AirBnB, Door dash, Snowflake, c3.ai, palantir etc? #personalfinance #investments
- Airbnb offer after corona Those who recently got offer from airbnb, does your rsu price based on last fund raising round or the recent internal valuation down round? #offer #career #tech
- Is stock market a bubble? What’s going on with GameStop, blackberry, Nok, Airbnb, Doordash etc feels like a gamble 💰 Are tech boys having fun with the hedge fund guys? How powerful is Elon Musk? Will this burst? 💥
- vote Startups Vs Unicorns Vs FAANG for maximizing TC & growing career Startups can be stealth mode, seed funded or Series A/B Unicorns are big companies but still act as startups internally like Uber, Dropbox, Lyft, Airbnb FAANG is FAANG TC:300K
- vote Do you feel pressure/stress due to fear of PIP or layoff risk? (non-FAANG ALLUM* version) For employees at: Cisco Dropbox Github Nvidia Oracle Palantir algo/HFT prop trading firms quant hedge funds "New" other companies (*FAANG ALLUM = Facebook Amazon Apple Netflix Google, Airbnb LinkedIn Lyft Uber Microsoft)
- vote New grad Airbnb or Stripe? Got offers from both for new grad. Stripe comp is ~120k base + 50k signing + ~250k in stock (at 22b valuation) Airbnb comp slightly higher in base but same signing and stock. Which one would you take? Edit: Forgot to mention Stripe is in Seattle and Airbnb is in SF Edit: Stripe is about to raise i
- vote Airbnb or Meta for Senior Engineer? I received an offer from Meta and Airbnb for E5 and L5 and am debating the choice and wanted to get some additional perspectives. Background: I've been in mobile development for my entire career and have a tough decision to make between doing mobile at a company I really like their product and cult
- Airbnb offer I recently got offer from Airbnb sfo for l5. Numbers: Base:215 Rsu: $800k Signing: 45 Profile: 6.5 yoe Microsoft 64, Seattle My recruiter told me that they will be giving rsus based on latest 409a valuation ($126.5 per rsu). I had heard that they usually give rsus based on latest funding round( w
- Invest in new VC fund Pitch for all the new Airbnb + DoorDash millionaires: - Starting a VC fund that *only* invests alongside top early stage funds like Pear (seed stage DoorDash investor) and Floodgate (seed stage Lyft investor). - 10% of the fund carry is distributed across all the founders we back. Every founder who
- Startup looking to raise seed-round A High-potential and high-growth startup in Bay-area is raising funding for seed-round... looking for individual and angel-investors ... They are building a platform which is supposed to be like Airbnb for parking... If interested, Unicast me, will be happy to share further details...
- Finally after 25 interviews I have 2 offers! Finally made it, below is the list of companies I was rejected by Dropbox -3 times Box Realtor eBay - 2 times Facebook - 4 times Google - 3 times Lyft Funding circle DoorDash Instacart Airbnb Game time LinkedIn Uber - 3 times Adobe Updater Upwork Ancestry New TC - 230k YOE - 5 yrs Edit
- Series F startup options Hi, How much options should one expect from a series F startup worth 2b and 200m funding? Going to be employee #250 ish for a senior tech role (director type) reporting to VP. The options are not RSUs like Uber or Airbnb. TC: ~600 (b4 2019 refreshers and raise), M2 level
- vote Which employer is least risky right now? Given current circumstances, where is the safest place? 1. Airbnb => business has high risk exposure to pandemic, up against a wall regarding 2020 IPO, tourism getting pummelled right now, but company has lots of cash in the bank to weather the storm 2. b2b Saas unicorn => high growth, lots o
- vote Interviews are too easy nowadays ? (Google, FB, snap, citadel,.. offers) 😴 Did a few onsites past few few months and aside from a few hedge funds all the LC questions were medium level or easier with easy followups. Have interviews gotten easier in LC bar recently? Tagged a few companies below I interviewed with, got offers from more than half of them without doing any L
- Airbnb Vs Cruise I have offers from each of these companies, any insight is helpful. The Airbnb is substantially higher comp compared to the Cruise offer at current valuation, they also have a money making product and are close to IPO. Culture seems healthier at Airbnb too, and the office just felt significantly le
- vote Airbnb vs. Uber SWE Offers I have offers from Airbnb and Uber. Both in SF 2yoe Uber software engineer II 152k base 13.5k-27k annual cash bonus 52k-105k annual stock refresh 50k sign on bonus 9600 stock units / 4 years at 409a price (I think this equates ~390k over 4 years. Correct me if I am wrong) Airbnb L4 SWE: 180k base
- Looking for referrals to companies in NYC or remote I’m a front end web developer and have 3 years of experience. I’m looking referrals to well funded start-ups or FAANMULA. Except for Google and Amazon I already have referrals for those companies. #slack #paypal #twitter #dropbox #atlassian #brex #instacart #square #twilio #faang #datadog #snowflak
- vote Switching to hedge fund, better now or later I'm still early in my career, so want to take opportunity to explore more, various domains. I would like to experience the other top tier tech companies (OTTTC) like Airbnb, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest. At the same time, I'm very curious & excited about hedge funds and NYC culture. I'm in bay ar
- [INDIA] A start up based out of USA is offering 70LPA for a remote job. I have always worked for Large Companies I am yet to get the offer from MSFT INDIA. Queries : 1 - How do I evaluate the company itself?#tech 2 - What is the job security for such roles? 3 - What are the questions I should the co founders, who sees business side of things? The role which has been communicated to me will involve C++, ru
- Join a post IPO company or stay at series E startup Posting for a friend. Which path to take? 1) Join a post-IPO company?Have offers from 3 post IPO companies. ( AirBnb, DoorDash, Snowflake )All offers are +- 10% of 500k Role : Senior Software or Staff engineer ( IC ) 2) or continue to stick at a Series E startup ( IPO at-least 18 months away ) at
- Do startups hide dilution from employees? My partner suspects that his current startup (NOT Airbnb) diluted the total number of shares in its Series B a few months ago. Employees were only told that "the total value of your options is now higher than before." Execs told no one about dilution, but when asked about it, they're tight lipped.
- Where would you invest $150k? [Seeking for advice] I have $150k sitting in a robo-advisor, but thinking of the possibility of investing them somewhere else. I’d like to leverage debt and get a higher long-term impact of these funds. What would you recommend to do? Maybe leveraging it buying a down-payment for a place to do Airb
- Are pre ipo unicorn founders rich? So I saw that Airbnb ceo is worth 3 billion but the company has not done an ipo. Does this mean founders like him have no liquid wealth and are basically middle class like us? Like as of now he cant buy a 10 million dollar mansion? Do they have other income sources like getting paid a high salary by
- Startup I used to work for big fundraise Company I used to work for went through a big fund raising round and puts my equity worth between $200-400k. (Based on 409A evaluation) CFO offered to buy from me for $40k before funding was announced. How can I sell my shares, and avoid low ballers like the CFO. I’m fine even giving liquidity dis
- Non-FAANG Python Tests There is a strong emphasis to use LeetCode to pass SWE/Data Engineer interviews at FAANG. I am curious if LeetCode/HackerRank also covers the questions non-faang would ask eg tech: spotify, airbnb, linkedin etc finance: goldman sachs, jpm etc other finance: hedge funds like two sigma, citadel etc
- Invest $150k in real estate or bonds + index funds? Hey Blind, I’m torn between buying a condo or investing in a mix of bonds and index funds. I live in the Bay Area but will be moving to Europe in 5 years for family reasons. If I buy, I could rent out the condo until I’m ready to sell in 15-20 years but I’d then assume risk by having to hire a pro
- Referrals Hi Blind, I have 1 YOE at a quant fund (Data Eng) plus some ML research internships and want to move over to tech. Any referrals for FAANG[A-Z]* would be greatly appreciated :) Thanks in advance! LC 389 TC 150 YOE 1 #swe #facebook #apple #amazon #netflix #google #microsoft #uber #lyft #linkedin #
- Selfless acts? Describe something selfless you did for someone recently or that someone did for you. This could be either time or money. Let’s hear some positive stories. Yoe: 22 Tc: $750k Edit: I realized If I don’t add something that I did all responses will be either about TC or pip. 😂 Also rephrased based
- What's the best way to make piles of $$$ in data? I'm just curious what people have to say. Let's say you ignore wlb, variance in earnings, culture, fulfillment from work - what will maximize your expected $$$? - grind your way up the corporate ladder at FAAMG? - work at a still-growing large tech company like Stripe or AirBnB? - join an early sta
- Looking for referral - NYC Top companies Hi, fellow blinders! I am currently a L4 ML engineer at Meta, and I am ready to jump the ship. I am looking for referrals for companies with TC compatible to Meta, Google, etc. and also hedge funds. I don't know what companies offer compatible TC, but here are some that I compiled from blind. Net
- link 2020 will be a bloodbath for tech Save this post. We are about to see a wave of layoffs as equity tightens for startups and bad companies. Softbank imploding is the first wave. Youve been warned. Get to FAANG immediately. SUPPORTING DATA: All softbank companies are laying off thousands Silent layoffs are impacting late stage st
- What happens if the next round of big IPOs fail? It’s been a while since we’ve had some big IPOs, but late 2018 or 2019 is looking like the time when Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and Dropbox go public. After twitter and Snap, what happens if most of these fail as well? Will this cause the VC funding to dry up, causing a crash? Tangentially, in Silicon V
- link Pre IPO startups are Overrated? 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
- Running list: First wave of layoffs and hiring freezes Consolidated based on information from other threads. Please share if you have information on upcoming layoffs. Layoffs: 1. eBay 2. SaaS startup (Sequoia Capital funded) 3. Google - cloud (February data unrelated to current situation) 4. Lyft (coming soon) Hiring freezes: 1. Affirm 2. Tubi 3. Uber
- What tier is your company? Let’s get a post going where you comment your company and what tier you think they are based on their household name, leadership, culture, etc. explain your reason why? Below is a random rubric which isn’t necessarily true, so don’t be butt hurt by it. Argue why you’re a higher or lower Tier Tier
- If you make it to a company like Airbnb, Snowflake, DoorDash - did you finally "break through"? I know not everyone can get into Facebook and Google but not everyone can get into Harvard and Princeton. In terms of tech companies, if you get into a company like Airbnb, Snowflake, DoorDash, etc. - do you consider yourself as finally "breaking through"? Similar to the way someone in investment
- Is this pay based tiering accurate ? Tried to arrange prominent tech companies according to pay (just pay, NOT wlb, NOT quality of work, NOT prestige etc.). Does this look accurate ? Appreciate any inputs. Tier 0: Netflix Tier 0.5: Google, Facebook, Airbnb, OCI Tier 1: Uber, LinkedIn, Lyft, Stripe, Pinterest, Square, Dropbox Tier 1.5
- Companies with the smartest set of people I’m talking like reeally smart.. ideally these folk work in smaller firms that are extremely secretive or are top startups. I’m looking for a job switch. I moved from a top tech company (tier-1) to my current company and lost my motivation and passion as I got used to working with some of the brigh
- vote Startup called Sonder? It is series E company in hospitality business. Kinda like Airbnb but it is different because they make a contract with building owner (as opposed to people renting their own house in Airbnb) and they hire concierge + professional cleaners in each building. Feels like a hospitality company rather
- vote Biggest loser of 2020 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
- Apple intern looking for FT referrals everywhere Currently a SWE intern at Apple but don’t want to return to my team full-time, so looking to interview elsewhere for 2022 new grad roles. Seeking referrals at all the usual suspects. Happy to offer an Apple referral in turn if you DM me before mid-August. LC: 200+ TC: 120k (annualized) GPA: 3.9+ (T
- Anyone do Airbnb Short term Renting as Host? Some info about me to get better advice from y’all 25 Nw like 580-600 Tc - 350-400 Yoe little over 3 In the NJ/NY area right now & supporting parents and helping pay their mortgage/support. So right now I live at home - probably until end of year. I was considering buying my own place in Jers
- Digital Marketing Career Change, Path & Salary? Asking for a friend here: Looking for her next company at a #tech company like Amazon, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber or others? TC was $45k with no bonus. Looking for between $75k to $95k. Is it too much or too little? What’s the salary range you think is ideal? Any referrals or suggestions? Looking for a
- Compensation Tiers of Companies for Tech Jobs By popular demand, I'm reposting one of my replies on another thread. This tiering is based on both trajectory and overall scale of total comp (base+bonus+stock) for IC positions. Edit: subsidiaries with the same pay go under the parent (e.g. Twitch and Amazon) Based off of all the comp data points
- Leaving a job (too early!?) Hello folks! Kinda tricky scenario and I wanted to get some perspective from peeps here. I am 2 months into a new job as PM at my current company. Right before going into holidays, a high growth, well funded company that I had interviewed with last year (before joining Adobe), reached out with an e
- vote when does FAANGMULA Salary Market See Correction??? So COVID-19 is fucking startups as VCs are changing their investmenr decisions and those who may need more funding later this year are going to have a hard time raising capital relative to the market pre-COVID-19. layoffs are ensuing at companies that lack strong balance sheets. and for the most p
- Looking for internship referrals Hi everybody. I'm looking for Fall 2022 referrals 😅 😅 😅 A little bit about me: - 4 SWE internships at Big N and some startups (Received the highest rating at 3/4) - Interning at Amazon in the summer - 2 paid part time contract SWE jobs (1 ongoing) - CS at T20 - 250+ LC Fall 2022 will be my sixt
- 20 years in this crazy business I just realized I’ve been working for twenty years and have unexpectedly been a bystander to some crazy things. Some of the beats: - grew up in the Bay Area in the 90s, my high school had this strange thing called “the internet “ which got me into programming - in college some friends of an older
- Evaluating offer that is a promo but low-ball stock Currently a 5a at Uber, got a staff engineer offer at a fast-growing startup called Sonder (staff for them being like Uber's L5b or high L5/low L6 in general) in the bay area that recently became a unicorn. They claim to be a rocketship, constantly compare themselves to Uber, Airbnb, etc. Salary: