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- vote 6 Offers, 2 FAANG, 2 Pre-IPO, 3.5 Months prep hu I have been fortunate enough to receive multiple offers from FAANG and few of the Pre-IPO companies. Yet to hear back exact comp numbers from all the companies. But everyone except Microsoft are offering 300k TC (avg over 4 years). I will put a separate post going into details about my prep and ex
- Best paying SWE companies Including companies that will most likely IPO in next 2-3 years. 1. Rentec, JSC, Citadel, HRT, Jump, Radix 2. FB, Stripe, Databricks, TikTok, Amazon, Netflix 3. Google, Apple #software #swe #engineering
- PM Salary evaluation / comparison Please help compare/evaluate. +Advice Senior Product Manager YOE 10 India Remote:- ₹55L per annum (+$40k ESOP @4yrs) Series D 1.8 Bn Valuation 2 yrs to IPO Vs US Remote:- $180k per annum (+$30k RSU @2yrs) Series D 1.0 Bn Valuation 2 yrs to IPO #pm #product #productmanager #tech #salarycompariso
- What companies for top TC/hour + WLB in 2022? I'm looking for L4 roles. Liquid stock only/realistic chance of IPO. Anyone got referrals, lmk. Amazon Meta Lyft Uber Google Linkedin Airbnb Apple Box YOE 2 TC 170
- Recession this and that but bay area houses keep going up and up Tech stock crash? So what. goog apple msft amz still in peak area. None of those employees got hit. And bunch of IPO winners still have tons of cash. Asian immigrants still buy houses like there is no house tomorrow 😂 Most of them in Bay area cares more about buying houses than anything else. We a
- Paymasters in Seattle for E5, i.e 400k+ No paper money Facebook, Google Apple And? I wish uber, Lyft, Airbnb go IPO soon.
- Hate my work at Apple. Possible options to go to? I am an SDE2 at Apple and don't like how I don't get to work on complex engineering problems at my team at Apple. Changing teams involves multiple rounds of interviews. Should I rather change companies and go to a relatively smaller company which is just post IPO or pre-IPO for more responsibility?
- vote How much you are going to invest in Airbnb stocks Subject line says it all .... Those selecting > $20K - whats your range 🤔 #ipo #investments #market #stocks #startup #amazon #oracle #facebook #google #netflix #apple #airbnb #microsoft #tesla
- Companies better than LinkedIn? Been at LinkedIn for about 4 years, but got dropped off a cliff and most of the motivated and competent members from my cross-functional team left for Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, and the like. The ride was fun while it lasted I'm also looking for my next play, whether pre-IPO or well-established
- vote Kodiak self driving car company evaluation How is the company, culture, growth, chances for IPO, salary? Have offer, still waiting for numbers Currently 4 yoe Mechanical Engineer at Apple
- vote Google vs Stripe vs Apple Offer Eval Got offers from Google (L4), Stripe (L2), and Apple (ICT4) and am curious what people think is best here. TC: Google (L4) - 270 (first 2 years) (average 255 for 4 years) Apple (ICT4) - 330 Stripe (L2) - 305 In terms of the work/team, felt like Google > Stripe > Apple. In terms of work locatio
- Compensation in a Startup Moving to a startup which has not gone to IPO as yet. How do I negotiate my compensation? Current TC : 550k. ICT5 -> Director role. What will be the ball park good enough to make a move leaving Apple?
- vote Microsoft L61 (Sde-2) vs Google L3 (Sde-1) vs Brex (Sde-1) Microsoft - L61 (SDE-2) Base - 141K Bonus - 40k/2 Rsu - 140k/4 220K, 176 recurring Google L3 (SDE-1) 290K (I am surprised) Brex (SDE-1) 240K - chose your own split 8% bonus TC: 260K (pre-ipo) Which one to choose? Google Gave L4 numbers for L3 brex thinks their Google too :) YOE: 2.1 (I am from
- Which company to join next? Google lowballs both salary and level Amazon has a shitty toxic culture Meta is in a downward spiral Netflix hire/fire culture + not doing that great Apple - seems to be the only cash cow left Nvidia - might be a good option Any pre-ipo companies can you suggest with good TC? Please suggest any
- vote Am I a black patch on society (ft. Robinhood) ? I recently joined FB and turned down a few startup offers (no, it wasn't Robinhood, neither was it any of these IPO successes). But the way this past year has gone by with respect to IPOs and how 2021 is framing to be, I am really jealous of these IPO gainers. So, with all this recent GME fiasco, I
- Companies paying more than 450k for FB L5 equivalent Hi, I am trying to make a list of the companies which can pay above 450k TC (excluding joining bonus). Yoe: 8 fb e5 tc 340k. My list so far is: (ipo only) Netflix Uber L5a/b Snapchat L4/L5 Linkedin Staff Google L5 Pinterest L5 Apple ict4/5 Amazon sde3 Twitter staff Dropbox ic4/5 Roblox ic4/5 Coup
- vote Apple ICT4 vs TikTok Got two offers. 1. Apple: ICT4 in AI/ML 2. TikTok: 2-2 in Trust & Security (ML) Haven't had the numbers talk yet. I mentioned I'm looking for a number in the 450-500K range. I like the Apple team as of now. Haven't had a chance to talk with HM at TikTok. Will Apple match TikTok or would it jus
- vote Best Investment Advisor ! Subject-line says it all ! Plz also comment why do you think it is best ! #personalfinance #investments #oracle #amazon #apple #microsoft #facebook #tesla #netflix #google #jpmorganchase #goldmansachs #deloitte #morganstanley #finance #stock #money #ipo
- Top Tier Augmented Reality Companies outside of Big Tech I will be entering market again soon, looking for any promising companies that are outside of the typical Big Tech that I should also apply to. Here are ones already on my list: Snap FB MSFT Apple Niantic Google What are some other ones I am missing? There is no such thing as a "pre-IPO unicorn"
- Recent Lyft T5 offers compensation I am expecting a T5 offer from Lyft soon. What are the recent offers like? Are they lower because of the IPO announcement? Current ICT4 at Apple, 4.5 YOE.
- Roblox Refreshers and Remote Policy? Seen lots of positive talk on blind about Roblox. How are the refreshers policy post IPO? Are they comparable to Google/Facebook/Apple level of refreshers? Also what's the remote policy like? No office besides San Mateo?
- vote Are non job hoppers happy that pandemic superstars got slaughtered? Folks who stuck with their stable jobs and didn't really chase any of the pre ipo dreams, how happy are you to see your greedy peers who joined high growth companies get slaughtered after the string of stock selloffs? tc - 400 #tech #engineering #software #facebook #apple #amazon #netflix #google
- vote Evaluate Twitter/Salesforce/TikTok/Apple Offers Please help me evaluate and decide which offer should I choose? Current TC - 380K, IC6, YOE - 14yrs Twitter - Senior SWE/200k/40k annual bonus/60k sign on bonus/530k RSU/125k RSU refreshers TC - 435k Downleveled, but best work with same domain I am working with and clear path to Staff within 1 yea
- Offer 🍎Apple vs ❄️Snow? #offer #tech Apple TC Austin Base 165k Sign on 20k first year. Refreshers RSU (bonus) ~ 90k Bonus - 10 ~ 15 % RSU ~215k for four years vs SNOW TC california Base 220 k RSU: 15K units (pre-IPO) Bonus - 10 ~ 15 % Thoughts on picking ❄️ SNOW over 🍎Apple?
- Freshworks review for software engineering Overall, How is Freshworks for 10+ years software engineers? Is the IPO near? Will it be a good strategy to compensate Amazon's base salary and RSU units with Freshworks base salary and RSU units, given Freshworks is not listed yet and it can be a huge loss to compare apples (Amazon Rsu which can be
- vote Apple TC India Based on some of the data I went through It seems TC at apple is not competitive with other FAANG or even pre-IPO startups. Is that true? Current TC - 31 YOE - 3 #tech #engineering #software #swe
- Product Designer with 6 YOE looking for referrals! 💫💫 Currently looking for referrals to Facebook, Google, Apple, Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Stripe, Tesla, Lucid and Microsoft. Also open to working for pre-IPO companies 😏 I mostly listed the companies I genuinely believe in and mostly jumping ship for better WLB and TC (the pre IPO RSUs is not worth lmao)
- How do we know if we are in recession? Inflation to the sky? Sure. But companies still keep hiring, and house price and rental price to the roof. Stocks like goog apple msft amazon barely dropped, also recent ipo like airbnb still strong. Techies and wall street still buy houses like there is no tomorrow. Stupid fed only talks but no act
- Google to startup? Which ones should I look at? I've worked at Google, Amazon and Apple and now want to try a pre-IPO/startup. I'm looking to maximize learning and TC. Don't really care about wlb. Which ones should I look at? Currently interviewing with Coinbase, Stripe and Samsara. Thanks! Yoe: 4 TC: 285k
- Why India lacks a good startup ecosystem? After working in US and China, I keep wondering why India doesn't have the quality of founders who can successfully start, scale and IPO their companies. What is it that the founders or the whole ecosystem lacks? Why don't we have more startup success stories like Apple, Microsoft, Alibaba, Tencent
- vote Remote Crowdstrike vs Remote Reddit I currently hold below offers. Both are good in terms of WLB and growth. Help me make a decision. Reddit: 172K EUR TC Crowdstrike: 170K EUR TC Current TC: 120K EUR YOE: 8 #crowdstrike #reddit #meta #google #amazon #apple #netflix #engineering #software #swe #ipo #tech #e-commerce #retail
- vote Chime vs Confluent vs Google vs Meta vs Square (New Grad) Format: Base / Equity over 4 yrs. Excluding Sign on Background: Undergrad with 5+ previous internships Highly value: Culture, WLB, Growth/Upside. Benefits is a nice plus Chime (remote): 140k/160k at Current Valuation Bonus: 10% Team: Financial Platform + Pre-IPO (barely) + really great reviews
- Pre IPO Company to Join What are the “specs” for a pre-ipo company one should join? Headcount size, location, strike price, industry sector, years in existence, customers, founders, VCs, etc. What should we look at to make a good choice? #apple #google #amazon #snowflake #slack
- Depressed AF - I rejected both DoorDash and Airbnb offers in 2016 I interviewed with both DoorDash and Airbnb in 2016 when they were valued at 600M and 25B respectively. I rejected their offer thinking it’s paper money that will never get converted to real cash and joined Apple for much lesser liquid RSU’s. At the time, I had offers from DD, Airbnb, Amazon and App
- vote Career progression at FAANG vs Unicorn? In general, which one is better for climbing the corporate latter? Which ones have higher ceiling, ie getting to the director/vp level? - GAF (Facebook, Apple, Google), don’t really care about others. - Public recently IPO with strong brand (Airbnb, Netflix) - Unicorn (Stripe, Databricks, Robinhood
- Apple vs Uber offer - what will you chose? Having offers from Apple as well Uber. Uber offer is more solid than Apple in terms of cash and equity. Apple folks, given an option to earn more and learn more, do you think you will goto Uber or you won’t take the risk? Uber folks, how confident are you that RSU will atleast hold this value till
- vote NYC OFFERS - Apple vs Oscar health I have an offer from Oscar Health and Apple ICT4 in NYC. Oscar has filed IPO and seems to have crazy growth as I see a lot of their employees get promoted like rocket according to their LinkedIn. Which one would you choose if they had similar TC? Work wise, which one would be better to gain experien
- vote Evaluate Airbnb vs Apple offers Apple: 300k, year 2/3/4 will be better based off refreshers, stock is low, so good time to join Airbnb: 350k, based on the current stock, also it’s a paper money, not sure about their refreshers. With Airbnb, what kind of tech are they doing these days, have they hit the rock bottom with the innov
- vote Instacart vs Apple I have offers for Senior Software position from both Instacart and Apple. The TC for both is similar (~350k). Any advice as to which offer should I go with? On one side, there’s the brand of Apple and on the other side Instacart is pre IPO and the work seems exciting Current TC 🥜 YOE 7 years
- What is a reasonable growth expectation on chime.com's equity? Got an offer that is numerically low compared to others, but the recruiter is really selling the growth potential. It is pre-IPO, so stock price valuation is based on latest funding round. I totally get that investors expect x5 on their investment. What is a reasonable multiplier to attach to their
- Tiktok IPO I recently rejected Apple and accepted an offer with Tiktok. Among many, one of the reasons being tiktok had higher TC. Significant portion of TikTok’s TC is in stocks. I feel like Tiktok might not IPO in a couple years. How my TC is going to get impacted by this? I heard tiktok will buy back veste
- vote Amazon not great but better than non tech? Not comparing with Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix or pre-IPO Unicorns (we all know what Blind thinks about that) Comparing it with consulting (Accenture, Deloitte, etc), Finance (BoA, ...), manufacturers, energy companies (GE,..), airlines and similar, etc... Asking for engineers and considering
- vote Would you rather? Scenario: Current location: Toronto Offers (both hybrid model) - Apple Vancouver (Relocation required) - Established Startup Toronto (potential IPO in 3-4 years) Similar TC (350K) Apple pays more in next few years with refreshers. Current TC: 180K YoE: 9 This question is to validate my thoughts
- vote Leave or stay at Apple I am a hardware manager with 13 years of experience in hardware test and validation. Been in Apple for 4 years and making close to 400k (450k with stock appreciation). Got a principle level offer from a post IPO startup with task to grow a vertical in 2022 as Sr Manager, at 600k. Should i switch ove
- What do you think of working for Rivian? Hi, Advice needed. I've come across this advice from a number of friends who recommend joining Pre-IPO companies. In their opinion, you end up making "A LOT" more money. One of the companies that comes to mind is Rivian. 1) Would you consider leaving a secure/good paying company like Google or Ap
- vote Which company would offer max tc for 7 yoe IC ? Which amongst the below would offer max tc (assume equivalent leveling in interview), comment for other public companies not listed in the poll. Please don't mention pre IPO companies for this discussion. tc - 300k #engineering #software #swe #faang #facebook #google #apple #netflix #citadel #j
- Looking for referrals in LA or remote Tc: 220k Yoe: 7.5 Product manager at Workday Looking for LA or remote product manager roles, only interested in public big tech or pre IPO where they can beat my current comp. Thank you! I can also refer for Workday. Snap Netflix Pinterest Google - have it Spotify Reddit Dropbox Square Stripe
- Looking for Referrals: Group / Principal Product Manager YOE - 15 TC - 300k Hey Blind community! I am a group / principal level Product manager at a public company (Not Resmed), looking to move to a late stage startup / pre-ipo / public company. My interests are in developer facing products, platform products across tech, healthcare and marketplace indu
- What business to start? Planning to start tech business in Seattle/US Any ideas what to do? What are the problems that need solution out there? Software Engineers I beat you have something creative in mind. Please share your thoughts. #engineering #software #startup #investment #ipo #businessanalyst #google #faceboo
- Tech PM Referral Hi all looking for full time Product/Program Manager referrals at big/medium tech as well as pre-IPO companies (which provides visa sponsorship). Total 6+ years of cumulative work experience in implementation, product management and Analytics in Big4 Consulting. Happy to provide more info via DM! C