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- Does meta ask for proof of competing offer? I have a couple of competing offers so I am ok with walking away from Meta. But I don't have the written offer yet. My recruiter is asking for data points and I gave her a total TC number that I would like but she keeps pushing and is saying there's a deadline for comp negotiation tomorrow. So when
- Manager asking for offer letter Hi all, I got an offer from Deloitte, and I am currently cognizant employee. I have submitted my resignation last Monday. Today my cts manager called and asking for a offer letter to check with HR to match the offer I got from Deloitte. Is it okay to share the offer letter?? Thanks in Advance!!
- link [AMA] Google| FB | Snap | Airbnb | Lyft | Uber | Quora | 7+ Offers | [AMA] Hi Team, First of all THANK YOU for such a great community here!! Blind helped me with a lot of useful information! This post is to give back to the community. I recently received 7+ offers for Senior SWE engineer at most of the companies I aimed to get into. It was a great experience interview
- link Google L5, Netflix & Twitter offers | AMA First of all, THANK YOU to all of you on Blind that have shared tips on how to navigate the interview process at large tech companies. I'm hoping to do the same with this post. YOE: 4 - SWE Education: Master’s degree in ECE. Did not do a thesis. Did not specialize in anything either. Offers: Goog
- vote Does Apple ask for proof of competing offer? If you answered yes, will a screenshot suffice or will they require you to forward the email? #apple
- Google ask for Proof of Offer I have two verbal offers from Meta and Google. Meta has given me a very competitive offer and I want to hear Google’s competitive offer before making a final decision about where to join. Google asked me to get proof of numbers from Meta but Meta will not give me numbers when I asked. Everything ha
- Does Meta ask for proof of other offers? Question is in the title. I’m currently in the negotiation stage for Meta and I’m trying to figure out how much room there is for negotiation. Does Meta ask for proof of competing offers? I’m currently finishing up interviews elsewhere, but don’t have official offers and don’t really want to go t
- I get offers from all interviews I do AMA I’m an experienced PM and in the past 5 years, I’ve done many interviews and received offers for every single one. I’m bored and would love to help people who need some help with getting their interview game in check. AMA. Edit: a few of you asked me privately for advice. That’s fine but I prefer b
- vote Principal/Staff Offers Evaluation.. + Prep Strategy [AMA] Interviewed with lot of companies in last 2 months and narrowed it down to below 6 companies based on team, level & TC. Priority: Long term career growth, Scope of work, company culture. Company: Level TC: Base + Bonus + Equity (per yr) + Sign-On Team (if known) Meta: E6
- Microsoft L62 verbal offer, how much should I ask for? I have a verbal offer but no numbers yet. How much should I ask for? Any idea what the top of band for L62 offers is? I would love to hear from anyone who got a Microsoft offer recently! What was your initial offer and what were you able to negotiate it to? TC 170k 2.5 yoe
- link 5 OFFERS, 2x my TC! - Giving back - Ask me anything - Part 1 I'm extremely happy to finally post and share. Thanks to Blind, I became motivated to go after the TC dream. I prepped hard, interview lots, failed lots, improved more, and finally succeeded. Landed the dream job and dream TC. Blind was _tremendously_ helpful. Knowledge truly is power. I'm here to
- Google offer | Thank you Blind | AMA I started heavily using Blind about 3 months ago when I started preparing for my job search. Today I received an offer from Google and I owe Blind a huge thank you for my success, from preparing for the interview to negotiating the offer, I probably wouldn't have done as well without this platform.
- Google asking proof of competing offer Hi Blind I have cleared HC for L4 at Google. All through the process I made my recruiter aware of my competing offers. I got offers in the range of 250 - 300 TC but all are verbal offers and no actual offer letter yet as I did not accept. Now google recruiter is asking me for proof of other competi
- vote Intel HR asking for offer letter for counter offer Following is the scenario 1. Currently, I am at grade 6. 2. Got offer from TI, G29. 3. H1B transfer done 4. Put the paper at Intel, mentioned the offer I have is equivalent to G8 at Intel. I mentioned Current designations and compensation as main reason of leaving. 5. Manger sent the email to the
- 8 offers out of 11 Apps AMA Recently was fortunate enough to receive offers from 8 of the 11 companies I interviewed with. Would like to do an AMA to try and provide useful information. Offers I received: - Amazon - Google - Meta - Doordash - TikTok - Startup (people) - Startup (Fintech) - Startup (Fintech) I interviewed for
- AMA: Got offers from Google/Apple/Meta Thanks Blind! Blind motivated me a lot to start job searching and ended up getting offers from companies I wanted to join. Happy to answer any questions. TC: 320K. YOE: 10 #ama
- Offer from Goldman Sachs(london) - asking to work 48hrs/week I received an offer from Goldman sachs as a VP (tech) My contract says minimum working hours are 45hrs/week but average working hours may exceed 48hrs/week. I have experience working long hours in investment banking but never seen that many hours literally written in the contract. They didn't gi
- Good questions to ask HM after receiving an offer Hey guys, I received an offer for a Data Engineer role at a series D startup (170k base + 1.6k options) at 1.5b valuation ($20 fair market evaluation, strike price $10) and waiting on several other on-site results. In the meantime, I scheduled a chat with the hiring manager so I can ask questions
- Meta offer ask I went through an onsite at Meta. Still waiting for feedback but want to prepare an offer in mind if selected. I am hardware engineer and not software. Current TC: 380 L6. 15 YOE. Meta ask: 250k base, 250 stock and bonus. Does this sound good ? Most likely E5. Could be E6 as I have pushed interv
- Recruiters/SDMs why do you ask for competing offer numbers ? and amazon team in particular. Why do we ask candidates for competing offer numbers? I get we need to schedule quickly if candidate already has an offer. it could also serve as datapoint on the candidate. But why ask for numbers during negotiation phase? Its already an issue where we are creating
- Meta L7 offer: AMA Want to thank Blind community for helping out during the journey. Got L7 from other places as well. TC offered: ~$1.1M Interviews are not that hard. In fact they seem quite natural as if they are day-to-day design discussions. They will be doable if the person is really operating at this level and
- Ask a Recruiter: Offers Day 2! You guys had a lot of good questions yesterday. Today, feel free to ask me anything about #offers. Should be specific to yours or one coming up for maximum impact. #Offers #tech #Facebook #faang #askarecruiter
- vote Ask for SWE offer to be downleveled? I’ve left Bloomberg and currently work at a notoriously cutthroat high TC company (not Amazon) in an E5 equivalent software engineer position. My manager says I’m not meeting expectations although I’m giving my best effort. I have an SWE offer to join one of Airbnb, Lyft, Uber in an E5 equivalent S
- How to ask for more time during offer negotiation? Hi everyone, Got an offer for L63 at MSFT! Details look mostly good and they beat the alternative offer I had on the table and my current TC as well. Job looks better, but I need to move to Redmond with my wife and baby. That said, I have an interview loop still going with Apple that MSFT doesn't
- Offer from Amazon. Asked for another team. Ghosted? Hi all, two weeks ago I got and l5 offer with relocation. Since the process was through an Amazon hiring event I didn’t know for which team it was. I received the offer letter and then asked for a meeting with the hiring manager. I didn’t like too much the part that the position was 50% front end a
- Offer from Amazon asking me not to interview at Meta SWE L5 offer from amazon, 394k TC, I have 6-7 yoe. This is Seattle (not Bay Area), basically add +10% for the equivalent Bay Area offers due to state income tax. They are asking what number to not interview at Meta. Thing is I interview at Meta literally the next work day 😆 and I asked for 400 to
- Interviewed with 20+ companies | 0 offers | AMA Most of the companies i interviewed are in last 4 months. 1. Google – Web Engineer – Techinal Phone Screen – Reject – OOP question 2. Meta – Solutions Engineer – TPS – Reject (was confident for onsite) – LC tagged 3. Amazon – Front End Engineer – TPS - Reject (messedup scalability q&a) – Tic Tac
- Safe to offer 30% above asking on this house? Looking at buying this from Redfin: https://www.redfin.com/WA/Renton/17747-SE-187th-Pl-98058/home/145710285?600390594=copy_variant&231528114=control&utm_source=ios_share&utm_medium=share&utm_nooverride=1&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=share_sheet Thinking of coming in at 30% above asking but Renton
- Recruiter asking for competing offer letter Recruiter asking for competing offer letter. I signed an NDA tho, am I allowed to share it? How do I negotiate with multiple offers?
- Ask for retention offer Hi, I have couple of offers for Senior SRE roles. Interviewed just to see how much I can get and I didn’t think I would consider taking them but now that offers came in, the idea that I could make more than I make now bothers me in a good way. Currently at Apple 5yoe $250$k( because Apple’s stock
- vote Is asking for 50% hike too much? 😐 | Offer Negotiation Hello Blind Community, I've recently cleared all the rounds of company and asked for 50% hike on my current compensation at my company. Is that too much? When I said this, the recruiter said that I'm asking too much (while I know I'm asking according to the market). They were offering me around 1
- 20 companies, 6 Offers MLE Interview Prep AMA Blind has helped me a ton throughout my interview journey! It can be hard to find information for machine learning positions (ie machine learning engineer, applied scientist, data scientist), so I want to share my experience interviewing for ML positions. All roles were primarily for MLE and I am cu
- Recruiter asking for Competing Offer Letter Negotiating with a competing offer for Salesforce. My recruiter is asking for my offer letter from the competing offer. Should I go ahead and share the screenshot or only give a breakdown of the competing offer verbally? Is it even legal for them to ask for an offer letter? Will they be verifying wi
- 11 offers: Google, Facebook, Stripe, Twitter, Coinbase, and more! [AMA] Hi all, 4 months ago when I started preparing, I saw similar posts mentioning 5, 7 and 8 offers from multiple companies. I thought I have 0% chance of replicating their effort, yet here I am with 11 offers. The community here was extremely helpful, so this post is to give back. Ask me anything and
- SDET AMA - Multiple FAANG+ offers Ask me anything about SDET interviews and offers and I will try to answer to the best of my knowledge. Recently interviewed at multiple top paying companies hiring SDETs and cracked a few including Google and Amazon. Willing to share my insights during the entire process as there doesn’t seem to b
- Start up offer/ ask compensation I recently had an offer from one of start ups which is 2 years old. Can anyone please help me in knowing how pay should be asked . What all should be asked before taking an offer from start up. Thanks In advance. Founder has one successful start up earlier. Which he sold for around $500 million.
- link Interview prep guide & tips - 5 OFFERS, 2x my TC! - Giving back - Ask me anything - Part 2 I am happy I can finally post and share! Thanks to Blind, I successfully received 5 offers. I'm here to give back. This is part 2, where I share my interview prep & tips. See part 1 which details my 5 offers. https://www.teamblind.com/post/M2VcYAsS BACKGROUND INFO: + I started from (almost) scratc
- Recruiter asking about level for competing offer I received an offer from company A recently, but unfortunately it was a downleveled offer. Company B will be making an offer soon, but the recruiter is asking me about the level of the offer from Company A. What should I do? Should I lie, or just tell the truth? YOE: 2.5 TC: 170k
- Google Recruiter asking for competing offer proof My recruiter is asking for proof and is not ready to take the numbers I told her. I’m not comfortable sharing the offer letter and also I have never done this with other recruiters. How do I go about this? I have a competing offer from Facebook. Google TC: 290k Facebook TC: 320k Breakdown is almost
- Which companies don't ask for proofs of offers while negotiating? Pretty much the question - I was wondering if there are any specific companies that don't ask for proofs of other offers you have received while negotiating. This would include negotiating based on only verbal offers from other companies. I know most companies will atleast try asking once but if the
- Amazon hr asking for counter offer letter hello, i have offer from other company and recently cleared amazon sde rounds. Hr is asking for complete untouched counter offer letter instead of just ctc breakup of counter offer. please advice how do i proceed with this? Im not comfortable with sharing offer letter. TC: 61Lpa edit: added tc #te
- link Google recruiters asking for offer letter ... Read this today that Recruiters will now ask to see offer letters before raising Google's offer https://www.yahoo.com/news/got-job-offer-elsewhere-google-165505955.html #google
- Recruiter is asking to share competing offer proof to match. Don’t want to reveal the company name/level for privacy reasons. Current TC 630k New company A offer 760k Company B recruiter asking me to share the offer letter from company A or an email from company A proving that I got 760k so that they can match. I’ve never done this before and also signed
- Ask for Long Offer Deadline I’ve seen many posts about asking for an extension to an offer deadline, but that’s not quite what I’m asking. I’m expecting to receive an offer after getting one of those “want to share good news 🥴” emails from a recruiter after an on-site. However I am currently waiting to start team matching wi
- Offers from Facebook, Google, Uber and 6 others | AMA I learnt a lot about interviews from blind community. This is my effort to give back to the community. This thread is not about TC, but for the curious ones, I have multiple offers around 550k and I still negotiating, I will start another thread with comp details. Offers I got - Facebook (E6), Uber
- Google asking competing offers I am currently interviewing with a company but don't have the offer yet. Ok to mention to recruiter that currently interviewing when asked for competing offers over email or just don't mention ? I am currently at team match phase and Hc will happen after that. Done with all interviews. #compensat
- Asking for a raise with competing offers I have two offers from: Uber Twitch I don’t want to leave my current role because I like my job and i’m also 20-30% in my visa/gc process at Microsoft. For those that know about the process, my PD is current. My competing offers show that i’m being paid really crappy here. I want to “vwmf” but if
- Director is asking me to consider the offer Hello, I declined the offer with recruiter. Now, director is reaching out to me directly and asking if he could do anything to change my mind and accept the offer. Would it be good to ask him more on the compensation ? Director wasn’t there during the interview process. The current offering is w
- Google asking for offer expectation Got an offer from Google for L4 (remote or Sunnyvale) and recruiter asking to provide numbers. I am planning to choose remote option but can go for Sunnyvale if the difference is significant. I am currently located in Austin. Can you please help me with the numbers? I already have an Amazon, Austin
- Ashamed to ask more job offer Interviewing with other companies and given initial offers I feel ashamed to ask more. Any thoughts or ideas on how others went about this. I know this is a first world problem and don’t mean to brag . Blind tax TC 900k Yoe 7