Hi, My company (Discovery) is soon going to be merged with Warner Brothers https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-discovery-merger-board-details-1234955681/ This is my first time being an employee of a company in merger phase. Any advice to its employees about company...Read more
Hi Everyone, I worked in Intel and have an E-Trade account for its RSU's, worked at Amazon and have some RSU's in Morgan Stanley at Work. I have some private investments in Robinhood. Is there a way I can merge all the stocks into Morgan Stanley all together? Can private stocks and Intel's RSU from ...Read more
What is next company in line to get acquired by FAANG? I am curious or may be work for it.
Discovery has bought WarnerMedia to make the new WarnerBros Discovery, but we have tons of different private groups still. There must be different groups for HBO, Turner, Warner Bros., WarnerMedia, Discovery, and now WarnerBros Discovery. Can we merge? Come on @blind #blindapp
What of the following companies merged? Ebay, PayPal, Twitter, and Snap. My insight: I am thinking: 1) The payment processing across all companies by users, merchants, and ad companies will be brought under 1 platform and Paypal can process it. 2) Snap can be the place where people view an Ebay pr...Read more
Hello, so long story short I(title: Data Analyst) used to work for a startup that did lot of BI/Data oriented work but got acquired by another company and my role got changed. I ended up getting assigned as a Financial Analyst and haven't been really enjoying it the last couple months. I've been wit...Read more
Am I being scammed if I joined a company for some months, my stock options were not granted, company goes public with spac merger and I am given RSU but at 40% of the number of stock options stated in offer letter If I’m being scammed, what’s the expected way a company handles such a scenario? What...Read more
A recruiter reached out and told me their company will go public via SPAC in the next month and RSUs are much more if you join before company goes public. How are RSUs valued right before a SPAC public event? Assuming stock price doesnt change much after IPO, is there still a large benefit to join...Read more
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Will it be really bad for our TC? #shitpost ok ok TC: $700k
Interviewed last week with Instructure, which I know has a shit score on blind. They mentioned their previous strategy used to be “build it and they will come” and now it’s just buy out the competition. Mergers and acquisitions. This combined with them being bought out by private equity seems like ...Read more
My current company has filed for my employment based Adjustment of status application, i.e the i485. It has been a month since the filing has occurred. But my current company will merge with a different company in a few months time. I do not even know if we will be called the same name as before or ...Read more
Have an intern offer at Discovery, currently don’t know if I should accept due to the merge between WarnerMedia and Discovery. I’m looking to work full time at the company I intern at. New grad package from Levels for Discovery is currently: 115k base, 12% bonus (14k), 30k RSU/3 years, 15k sign on ...Read more
My wife works for a startup and they granted her ISO options worth $150K (10K options at $15 FMV and they are vested now) and there's an internal talk about merging with a public company early next year. That startup is an unicorn in their industry and been doing great with exceeding ARR and number ...Read more
McAfee Enterprise and FireEye products merged and re launched as Trellix… is it a good idea to make a move?
For example, say someone at a startup or spinoff division from a big company bought by another big company is making 200k as a senior dev at his current BU and then the BU gets acquired by a FAANG company that normally pays senior devs $400k. Is it typical for that FAANG to hike that persons TC to m...Read more
If your company which is public acquired by another company in same industry. What happen to RSU which is vested and unvested.. TC:120K