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- Benchmarking my salary at Series E company with that of other publicly listed companies I work in a Series E company that is supposedly going IPO in a couple of years. Don't know if IPO will happen that soon or later. How should I compare my salary to that of other publicly listed companies whose RSUs are equivalent to cash? Should my "base pay + variable" at the Series E company be a
- What is TC (Salary + Bonus + Stock) Benchmark for Product Management VP / Director role in top tech companies in NJ / NY Hey guys, I am new to Blind. And new to job market with around 17 years as Startup CEO/CMO, IT Manager, IT Senior Manager, Architect and started career as Java based product development programmer, I am also google certified, Hubspot certified marketer, AWS certified architect, Sun certified, PMI ce
- If not Google then what? I have seen many posts declaring that Google is no more the “Most prestigious tech company” to work at, and people disheartened from Google’s rejection should find and apply at the “better” companies to work for. What are these companies? Now I am not saying that FAANMULA are bad or anything. But t
- vote Would you ever accept funding from Benchmark? https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/17/travis-kalanick-strikes-back-against-benchmark-lawsuit-calling-it-a-public-and-personal-attack/ What's happening at Uber with their investor Benchmark and Travis is insane. If I ever started a company and was seeking venture funding. I'm not sure if I'll ever engag
- It's a brave new world in Silicon Valley (Uber) So benchmark sues CEO of portfolio company. Travis. Other board members turns their backs on Benchmark, asking for their resignation and sale of 75% of their stake at Uber. #shitshow
- link Twilio comp Levels.FYI doesn’t have many samples. What is a comparable company to benchmark offers against for senior levels? Cisco/PalPal/FAANGs etc? Bay Area
- What is a normal merit increase % ? What is the normal merit increase range? Just want to benchmark what other companies are paying.
- USAA SALARY I'm not sure how many AML Compliance Analysts are out there... but I'd like to know how much Compliance Analyst salaries pay at USAA and possibly other companies so I can have a benchmark of what to expect. Current TC : 70k
- At what age did you start making 6 figures? Just curious for some mental benchmarking! Other accompanying factors would be nice too like service line, city, promotion schedule, company transfers, grad school/certifications, sexual favors, etc.
- vote How much time do I need to prep for coding interviews? Am I fucked? Amazon interviews in 5 days, and other A tier companies in a week. I've been prepping, can do mediums in 30 and hards in 45. 80% success rate. Looking to use Amazon offer as leverage for others. What's the benchmark these days?
- Company switchers: how long did it take you from networking to start day? Interested in benchmark experience. How long did it take you from starting to network, phone screening, interviews, offer, to start day? Ideal of you include from company X to Y as well as discipline : engineering, marketing, sales... Thx!
- How do I know what "Level" Software Engineer I am? I work at a company with a flat structure (well, for IC's) and have never been assigned any sort of level. I hear all of these other companies discussing "L2", and "L4", and "L7" or "E5"... how do I know what I am? Is there a common way to benchmark yourself? Does it differ by company? TC: $210 YO
- Which companies have the highest standard to pay ratio? Some companies are seriously choosing beggars. Can I get an idea so I know which ones to avoid? No point in doing all this lc just to get ripped off of $100k. I guess I'll say Google is the benchmark due to their pay and wlb, and any company that's just as hard to get in but like half the pay is wh
- Work culture at India offices of tech companies How does the work culture at different enterprise tech companies in India compare. As a benchmark consider VMware, Cohesity, Nutanix, IBM Software Labs, Veritas, Rubrik. What kind of team culture do we see here? What's the quality of work that these places have? How do compensation and care growth
- What's typical compensation like for Master's grad + 4 years industry experience? Assuming hired at L4 or L5 benchmark? Is it possible for L6? 4 years consists of 9 months at some company and 3 years and a few months at Square doing full stack work. Master's is in Comp Sci with ML specialization.
- Vmware Boston tc Hi I interviewed for senior software engineer for vmware acquired company in Boston. If the interviews went well l, what should be the expected TC? YOE: 6 years I am yet to hear back from them but I couldnt find any good benchmarks for Boston office.
- link Blind vs Glassdoor I'm starting the job search process again after a good 4-5 years. Wanted to see what people are using to benchmark companies. Do y'all use Blind? Glassdoor? Levels.fyi? LinkedIn? Which is most reliable for what? TC: 390K #jobsearch #tech #blind #glassdoor #linkedin
- Company to switch in Ssd industry I have been working for Microsoft for 2 years doing performance testing and benchmark for SSD Drives. Which companies should I be targeting for future? Work is great and don't want to change domain but really want to do something exciting in the future. Does FAANG companies hire newbies like me or s
- When am I FAANG ready? I want to benchmark myself if ready to crack Google, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. I know it depends from person to person. But as a rule of thumb / bare minimum - How many Leetcode problems can make me interview ready for these companies? How do I convince myself that I am adequately prepared?
- How much do founders of startups get paid (not counting their stock)? (at various stages) I’m sure this number is variable based on conversations with their VCs, but wanted to get some benchmark numbers.. looking through some of their profiles, it seems like they are also able to angel invest in many companies, which made me curious. Tagging Google, FB, and Stripe bec they have more al
- vote FAANGMULA drop from ATH For reference: Facebook | 35.2% Apple | 4.4% Amazon | 23% Netflix | 39.7% Google | 3.69% (Just hit ATH today) Microsoft | 11% Uber | 41.96% Lyft | 51.95% Airbnb | 30.10% Benchmarks: US Stock Market (VTI): 5.74% S&P 500: 5.4% QQQ: 11.46% More than half with the exception of Google (3.7%), Apple
- How to spot a startup winner 📈 Edited: I was hired pre series A. We scaled rapidly right into an exit to a FAANG company. Company was ~3 years old at the time of acquisition. 🚀Here is how to re-create this scenario and join a company that may actually reach a liquidation event, because if not, then why bother? ✅ 1. Look at th
- Who is Jeff Dean or Werner Vogels at Facebook? I realize FB, similar to Uber, is product-first company, unlike tech-focused like Google. Infra is simply a pillar that runs these products. Running infra at FB-scale needs genius experts to deliver top efficiency. Think about Google TPU’s latest performance benchmark. It blew away GPU by very larg
- What makes a fast career progression in big companies? What makes a fast career progression in your eyes? Have you or someone you know achieved it? How? I'm inclined to look at this as amount of responsibility rather than titles or TC (they tend to follow shortly), but to each their own benchmark I suppose. Don't know anyone personally who grew quickly
- High TC for 4 YOE in India What is the high TC benchmark for 4-5 YOE in India now. My friends who started from 3-6 LPA are now making 35LPA. Amazon pays about 40LPA. Google pays about 50-60LPA. What is the general high pay in India by companies like Uber, Airbnb, coinbase, rubrik, TR etc in India at 4-5 YOE. Want to know if
- What % equity ownership for a Senior PM at a VC-backed Series A startup? Received an offer from a Series A fintech for upper 100s base and ~0.1% equity in options, role is Sr PM for a key product line of the company. The equity portion seems low but I’m having trouble triangulating what is a reasonable % to aim for given my seniority & this stage of company. - I have ex
- How Shares Are Priced (Uber @ $35) A quick primer for stock market noobs: Companies in similar industries fall within a range of valuation metrics. Since both Lyft and Uber have negative earnings, we can’t use P/E (price to earnings) as the benchmark. Both companies have revenue, however: Lyft $3B annual revenue $15B valuation (ma
- Insight getting into Spotify UX research? Currently I'm a digital BI analyst at a Gartner subsidiary. I've got 3 years experience mixed quant/qual. Lots of experience with short and long term studies for brands and retailers/benchmarking. I know friends who work at Spotify love the culture and I love the company. Trying to apply but any ins
- Looking to transition from UX to product Hi there. I'm a ux designer with 7 yrs of exp total. 7 yrs in designing products. 3-4 yrs of exp in defining strategy & direction. 3 yrs in user research. 1-2 yrs in benchmarking strategy. Would it be easier for me to make the transition with my exp NYC? If so, are there companies out there that
- Stuck at L6 PM After spending close to 4 plus year amidst multiple restructuring and team changes, I am still not able to see a path forward for promo at Amazon. Problem is lot of other companies benchmark their leveling based on your current level at Amazon. I am not that keen on series A/B firms as just had a ki
- Product Manager salaries in India I have tried to research PM salaries in India but finding it very hard since there is no good source. Can we crowdsource PM TC here in this thread to have an anonymous source of truth? Attaching a recent snapshot from this year's Michael Page Industry benchmark here, and PM salaries look too good t
- Uber valued at $40bn At $45 Billion Price, SoftBank Talks Enflame Uber Tensions By Jessica E. Lessin, Serena Saitto and Amir Efrati Aug. 04, 2017 1:10 PM PDT Share Three weeks ago, Benchmark partners Matt Cohler and Peter Fenton flew into Sun Valley, Idaho for a private meeting with Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, according
- Google TPM - navigating TC when the level is not disclosed I was asked to provide my expectations on base, stock and bonuses for a Security TPM role at Google before meeting 4-5 teams virtually. I do not know the scope of the role or the level yet. But the location will be in Durham NC. My current base is above this L4 benchmark. Anyone have insight on
- How long would it take for a newbie to be hired in computer vision? Hi All, Just started learning about computer vision cause I've recently been interested in the space. Mostly learning through open source projects and online courses. Realistically speaking how long would it take me to get to a level to be able to do this professionally? What does the future of thi
- vote How important is internal adoption of your new product? Hey folks, I would like to benchmark with other companies to see how much priority you put on internal adoption of your new products? I work on a new set of features that has a lot of early adoption with external customers and and extensive preview program. Our executives however value internal a
- What job Titles are associated with L3-L7; E3 E5, M1 etc at tech companies I noticed that when everyone's posting their roles it's based on levels as stated in the title. I'm curious as to what job Titles correspond to these levels. Also, when interviewing with tech companies do recruiters/interviewers talk about your job by level or job title? Also why don't OPs talk in
- India tech engineering salaries What do leading tech companies pay in India these days for senior executives in engineering - director or above. 13+ years exp. I? I’m looking for ranges in base and overall compensation. I’m looking at offers , excluding stocks , with amazon , google , cure.fit, and big basket. They are in the 70-8
- Promotion in title but no pay bump? I am getting put up for promotion from Executive Assistant Business Partner 1 to 2 but was told today that I likely wouldn’t see a pay raise because I am already getting paid 80%+ of their benchmarking for EABP1... two part question is: does this sound reasonable to you and/or how much do you get pa
- I have been curious for long.... What do employees(product development team/tech team/release-ops/marketing/ etc) of pornhub and other popular XXX sites answer to their family, spouse, crush, headhunter when they are asked where do they work? 🤔 Also, what is the gender distribution there? What is the typical day? How do they test
- What kind of package can you get as front end developer at google? I’ve heard that it is pretty hard to get higher title/TC if your expertise mostly focuses on front end at google. Can anyone confirm? I interviewed with them about 2 years ago and get L4 with about 300k TC…… I have about 8 years of experience although mostly in non-fang company... The level was a b
- Microsoft L65/L66 product comp in bangalore, India Finally, after some amazing years in the United States (thank you Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco 🙌), we are moving back to India this month. Wife has taken an internal transfer in her company, but I am talking a break to get the family settled on India and will hopefully start in December secon
- PM Salary Bangalore: Not sure what to ask for? I've spent the last 10 years working in a Product Company in Bangalore, as a pay master, its not the best, I would compare it perhaps to Dell. I've gone up the ladder starting in engineering and am working as a Product Manager i.e. Requirements, Roadmap, Refinement, Product Planning etc. I'm now pl
- Looking for Tech Referral Hey blind fam. Looking to make a career switch into a tech company. Any referrals would be greatly appreciated! I have over 12 years of senior leadership experience in leadership and individual contributor roles. My experience and expertise is in building and optimizing organizational processes, m
- Microsoft recruiters are the most unprofessional I've done enough interviews with companies to have a good benchmark of recruiters in big tech. Through my entire job searching, I've never seen recruiters as unprofessional as MS recruiters. My first bad experience was before I join Amazon when a recruiter just didn't get back to me AT ALL after my
- Lofgren's LIKE Act Lofgren announced a new bill to give immigrants a new visa type to start their own company and after 3 years if certain benchmarks are met are given the opportunity to apply for green card or extend their visas. Backlogged on twitter are negatively reacting to this announcement because she's introd
- vote Senior Backend Developers - Looking to join a fast-growing Series B SaaS startup? Are you looking for your next career move to kick off the New Year? We're offering a sign-on bonus starting at 10k for all Engineers who can start before Jan. 31st, 2022! 🤩 Are you a builder? Do you value forever learning? Do you ❤️ Node.js and/or GO? Are you perhaps tired of working at big compa
- Looking for Twitter or DoorDash referral Hey blind fam. Looking to make a career switch into a tech company. Any referrals would be greatly appreciated! Targeting Twitter and DoorDash but willing to look at others. I am currently interviewing for m2 roles at Facebook I have over 12 years of senior leadership experience in leadership and
- vote Senior DevOps -> Lead Engineer Currently senior devops engineer but considering taking advantage of the company hiring several lead engineers. I’m curious if the jump makes sense given I’m in my early 20s and I’ve only held my senior position for about 6 months. From a quality of life standpoint I’d be busier than I am now and o
- DevOps/SRE/Infra Percent of Engineering Hey all, I'm trying to get a sense of what percentage of engineers at different organizations fall under the (loosely defined) DevOps/SRE/Infra/SysAdmin/Internal Tools/Security/etc. Don't want to fight about the strict definition of "DevOps", but basically the folks that are full time operational/fo
- Salary range for a Senior Product Manager (Europe Only) Goal of this post is to create awareness on salary ranges for SPMs (Technical v/s Non-technical) in Europe. I thought I would run a Europe based check of salary ranges for Senior Product Managers just to understand how much people can expect to earn. I am not a PM but running it for my friend. She