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Apple ESPP
- Apple ESPP Does ESPP program offer have a holding period? Or, you can sell immediately? #personalfinance #investments
- espp cycle at Apple can someone at apple tell me what is the ESPP cycle. Is it Jan-Jun and July-Dec or something else. thanks in advance
- Apple ESPP and 401k Does Apple have ESPP? Also how does the 401k match look like? Thx
- Maximum ESPP contribution at Apple What is the maximum yearly limit to buying through ESPP at Apple?
- Selling espp after leaving Apple After leaving apple, if I sell the espp stocks that I hold, are they still gonna be categorized as qualifying/disqualifying disposition? If yes, does it mean I’ll get a w2 from Apple the year I decide to sell? If not, what happens? Do your apple stock move out of the “stock plan” section of E*Trad
- link Does Apple ESPP work the same as MSFT? [Blind] Check out this post! Does ESPP (Microsoft) really make sense? (Investments & Money) https://us.teamblind.com/s/Z2wrE2vB Curious if its the same for Apple and if it makes sense .. #tech
- Apples RSU vesting schedule and ESPP policy What is Apples vesting policy for their RSUs? Also if a new Hire is joining in mid July could he/she still participate in the ESPP program?
- Apple ESPP enrollment period and usual purchase date? What is the open enrollment period and usual date for ESPP purchase? TC: 110k😑
- When's apple performance review cycle? When should you join to be eligible for it? What about ESPP? I heard jun-may and I also heard October elsewhere. Which is it? Does it start in June or may or October? By when at the most do I have to join to be eligible? What about ESPP?
- Can't believe it: $1M Apple stock, 5 yoe Joined Apple last year (had 4 yoe) and got 350k as total RSUs (to vest over 4 years). I was extremely happy as I had hit the cliff at my previous company and my TC was 150k only! Now, after one year only, due to the stock split and appreciation and my annual refreshers (150k) and the ESPP, now I hav
- Meta Refresher Schedule Hello, I recently accepted an offer at Meta TC360. When asking my recruiter what was the refresher and bonus schedule. I was unable to get a solid dates can someone help me out. Was looking for something like the one below. Apple Ops schedule: (Yes I know no ESPP at Meta) Feb 1: ESPP vests April
- Monetary benefits at google What are monetary benefits at google other than base, bonus, stocks. Like 401k, health insurance, espp, healthclub reimb, discounts etc etc PTO, sick leaves ..! How do they compare to qualcomm, apple, facebook in general..! #Google #benefits
- ESPP at FAANG Which tech companies do ESPP? Is Apple the only one of the FAANGs that does? How much guaranteed money do you make from it?
- From Apple to MSFT. Benefits. I’m moving to MSFT from Apple. For those who tried both, what will I miss/get? Please share what’s better at either. I know the below: - ESPP better at Apple I think - Apple Products discounts at Apple TC: 220K YOE: 6
- vote How much in Apple stocks do you own? Just to keep things simple, exclude any mutual funds or ETFs you have that contains Apple. Just count the direct stock itself. $AAPL Include 401k, IRA, ESPP, RSUs, taxable brokerage accounts. Considering it just broke the $3 trillion market cap threshold earlier today.
- vote Apple or Adobe TC @Adobe : 350k Apple : No offer yet. YOE: 10 Assuming Apple beats current TC by 20%, how does the other benefits like 401k, ESPP, flexible work arrangement, WLB, shutdown, unlimited vacation etc compare?
- Money management How do you guys manage your salary? I make 5.6k a month after tax and struggling to make ends meet after marriage 2.3k rent for 1b1b 0.7k car loan for a Toyota 1.5k credit card bill 4.4k for survival. I’m saving/investing around 1k a month apart from ESPP and 401k I’m from India and I think this
- 100k investment I sold a big chunk of espp, so that I can diversify my portfolio. Looking for long term investment advice, I am thinking of putting, 25k in Apple 25k in Netflix 25k in SPY 25k in VTSAX
- Apple India Offer Negotations Apple India ( Hyderabad )do we get better offer on negotiation? Or HR give best offer in one shot? I am given only 25 percent hike on my current compensation. Current Compensation: Fixed 27.5 lac, Variable 4 Lac, Stocks 23.5 lac/year TC 54 lac Apple HyCompensation Fixed 35 lac, variable 3.5 lac
- Best investment strategy- late twenties I’m in late 20s , have 200k in my account (cash), recently married . Have stocks and espp - ~60k from Apple and that’s the extent of my investment . How should I approach investing this money. Any guidance is helpful.
- What’s the official purchase date for ESPP stock? Period start, period end, or some other date in between? I’m asking this to know when my ESPP shares turn into long term capital gains for taxation purposes. I’m more specifically interested in how does this work at Apple, but I guess this works similarly across companies.
- Apple / Amazon offer comparison Amazon: 72k split over 2 years 152 base + 115 rsu units (standard Amazon vesting schedule 5,15 etc) Seattle Apple: 65k sign on 155 base + 130k rsu (25% /y) Cupertino Other aspects: - Amazon doesn't have ESPP and 401k sucks - How does Apple / Amazon compare w.r.t compensation at performance appra
- Need help with distributing investments So I will preface this by saying I’ve never actively invested but just got lucky: I currently have: - 825k in nvidia stocks (espp + RSUs from previous job) - 235k in Apple stocks (espp + RSUs from current job) -100k in cash -300k equity in a rental property that has a neutral cash flow - 150k in 40
- Intel to apple/nvidia pros and cons Those who moved from Intel to apple/nvidia what do you think are the perks you like at Apple/Nvidia and what you miss? This is other than TC, so no comparison of base pay, rsu etc. It's about health insurance, espp, 401k matching, great place to work equivalent, time offs other than vacation etc etc
- NVIDIA is hiring!! Nvidia is truly a great company. We're flat and we recognize talents and give credits where they're due. TC-wise NVIDIA is up there close to the big names. Of course not crazy like them but stock is currently low, good time to join. Sr and above SWE specifically in Go, Java, Python. Work will be
- Apple ICT3 offer Recently, I interviewed with Apple for an hardware EPM role. I want to level set with the group and see if the offer is at market. Currently I have about 7 years of experience spanning manufacturing and mech design. my initial verbal offer is below: 130-140 base, 110 RSU, 20sign on. p.s. what
- Which Vanguard index funds to pick? I have about $50-60k cash that I want to invest and need to create a three fund Vanguard portfolio. I plan on keeping my money in Vanguard for about 5 years. I willing to keep the risk factor as 7/10. So far on the basis of my research I found that the following index funds are popular and can profi
- vote Compare Offers Hi all, I have below offers. Wanted to get opinion on which would be better (“Please provide specific reason also, it will help me in making decision”) 1. Adobe Level: L4 TC: 410K (first year including sign-on) 2. Apple Level: ICT4 TC: 390K ((first year including sign-on) Factors considering:
- Questions about Apple Eng ICT4 offer I have an offer from Apple, recruiter is available on and off, and I'm trying to learn: 1) What is the RSU vesting schedule? 2) Does it matter what my start date is? For example, if quarterly RSU vesting schedule includes November 15th, should I join at a time right before this time, so that my RSU
- A $270k TC job vs $180k contracting for Apple? My friend said he got an offer for a big tech company in Silicon Valley, $270k TC plus 401k matching, ESPP, insurances. And then he also got a contracting job for Apple, $160k W2, or $180k Corp to Corp (like 1099). (actually, more like $80 / hr W2, or $90 Corp to Corp... and somebody said it really
- Do you think its a no brainer to transfer all your intel stock to AMD ? I have intel stock from ESPP and RSU’s. I strongly feel that most likely AMD stock is going to perform much better than Intel stock in any scenario. Do you think it makes sense to just transfer all your intel stock money to AMD ? Obviously you can invest at other places as well, but lets just say if
- Evaluating Apple SWE offer. Total comp around 450k. (Edit) Breakdown: ~210k base, RSU+yearly bonus rest. Not counting other benefits like ESPP. Pros: Work with really smart people. Top talent in my area. Stacking refreshers. Cons: - I'm not an Apple Fanboy. So dealing with Apple devouts may piss me off on a regular basis. -
- Recommendations for investments ! I have 22-25k in my savings account and piling up little by little and I'm looking for ways to invest it. I've invested a lot in tech in stocks/ mutual funds/ ETFs and even use Robo advisors, Fundrise, ESPP, 401k to try and diversely invest etc.. All the recommendations here are funds that I'm famil
- I did hope to work for Apple, but regular full time position seemed no hope But if it is contracting job, then agencies can hunt me down so eagerly. My resume submitted to Apple just feel like rock thrown into a lake. And the agencies would quote an $80 / hour rate on W2, so it is less than $160k TC, considering no ESPP, no 401k, no insurances, and even no respect inside
- vote Can we afford 1.6M+ house in Bay Area? Hi folks, I know there are online calculators and I have used them but I wanted to also get some feedback from blind community. Current household income (not including 401k): 450K Household Base salary after tax/espp: 12k Remaining TC is due to stock. I don’t want to sell too many RSUs as I bel
- What Microsoft benefits do you lose at Amazon? When comparing offers, benefits make things less black and white. Microsoft has great benefits that are easy to overlook when a big signing bonus offer is made, but that’s a long term benefit whereas the immediately available benefits can really impact life starting on Day 1. Sounds like Microsoft
- Zoox offer for hardware systems enginner I am going to offered a hardware systems engineer positon at zoox at their “level 5”. Currently I’ve been at Apple as a lead electrical engineer for little less than 2 years and was prevously at Intel for 7 years ( total around 10 years of electrical enginnering and hardware development experience).
- Looking for Salary Transparency for User Researchers Hello! I’m a Senior User Researcher with 10+ years of research/insights experience and an MBA. 2.5 years have been in UXR specifically. I’ve only worked at one tech company (besides consulting) in my career so I have very little visibility on what a User Researcher should be making at my level. I ex
- Moved to Apple from Facebook as SWE, life is so much better here 😇 I was at FB for 2 years, joined from a startup. It’s been 3 months at Apple and I’m loving it so far. Some of the personal things I observed, 1. Once a year perf review, no real danger of PIP 2. Everyone works decent hours, nobody’s checking code during late nights and weekends 3. Nobody is hack
- vote Rate my decision - Current job vs Apple Declined apple ICT4 offer TC 245K (includes signon). No room to negotiate inspite of saying it is below my current. Current TC 265K (base stock bonus) Base salary difference more than 25k between current and Apple offer - Main differentiator. And also no sign on in year 2, so a little lesser TC
- vote Stay at Apple or leave for VMWare or Airtable? Apple ICT4: $210K base ~14% bonus (not written anywhere, but personal historical data points) ~$120K RSUs per year (~$480K unvested - including appreciation) TC: ~$370K/year Refreshers were around $80-100K per year VMWare Staff: $240K base 17% (supposed to be pretty solid to expect from what I'm he
- Apple ICT3 Offer Evaluation Got an offer from apple for ICT3 level. Breakdown: Base: $165K RSU: $250K Signon: $40K Recruiter mentioned that the TC for the 4 years would be: Year1: $284K Year2: $265K Year3: $287K Year4: $308K YOE: 7.5 years and Masters Degree Location: Bay Area Question: 1. With the numbers in the breakdown
- vote Unpopular opinion: Apple has beaten Google as the best company to work for as SWE Google has always been the darling of silicon valley for their TC, WLB, Perks, Prestige, Stock etc. before 2020, even though Facebook/Netflix can beat Google's TC, they couldn't beat their WLB, Perks. In my opinion, Apple has overcome Google to become the best company to work for as SWE. To note, t
- Among FAAM Apple is the best for swe Between me and my wife we've worked at these 4 and can confidently say Apple is the best by a big difference from the other 3: - WLB: Awesome. Working 20 hours/week and still getting 8/9 performance rating. Only MS is similar in this aspect (but extremely low for pay). - TC: Great. With 5 yoe and
- link Please help - Offer expectations! I have an offer from a company in San Diego. HR is asking expectations. I do not see any engineers from this company on Blind so any help will be appreciated. Also, as such there are hardly any posts specific to RF engineers so I guess I can assume it close to a HW role. What TC should I ask for a
- Fresh Books Verbal offer evaluation Hi All, I have recently cleared an interview with Freshbooks. Recruiter wants to move ahead if I can agree on the salary range first as it's not the role I interviewed for initially. He proposed it would be around 117K CAD as base pay for SDE 3 in TORONTO. Obviously, I'm not trying to convert it
- vote Is contracting rate more than $95 / hour common at all? I have never heard of contracting jobs at Apple, Google, Facebook, or any where else more than $95 / hour W2. Maybe some people get $150 or $160 but is it common? Somebody was saying, it is because you are willing to accept these "bottom dweller" rate, so they know they don't have to pay you more
- vote Evaluate offers Hi, I have these below offers. Can you suggest which one could be better (“adding your reasons would help in decision making if you something specific”) 1. Adobe level: L4 Base: 210 RSU: 250 Bonus: 60 Annual bonus: 15% Org: experience cloud 2. Apple Level: ICT4 Base: 200 RSU: 300 Bonus: 50 Ann
- Apple ICT3 Offer Evaluation Got an offer from apple for ICT3 level. Breakdown: Base: $165K RSU: $250K Signon: $40K Recruiter mentioned that the TC for the 4 years would be: Year1: $284K Year2: $265K Year3: $287K Year4: $308K YOE: 7.5 years and Masters Degree Location: Bay Area Question: 1. With the numbers in the breakdown
- Today's Entrepreneur Topic: How to exploit people to the fullest? It seems when Google, Apple, Facebook is looking for contractors, they can offer $80 / hour on W2, or even $71 / hour on W2, and people will bite, because it is like a "dream company to work for". So if there are some programmers that are willing to go for it, they will exploit the person to the fu