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- vote Offer Review/Advice | Cruise, Instacart, DoorDash Hey Blinders, Promotion got delayed due to manager transitions and re-orgs so I decided to LC and get my promotion and raise.... Considering three offers this weekend. Tryin to gauge company futures, WLB, growth... the works. DoorDash: E5 | 210k cash, 195k RSU - Pros: - Public company; easy to l
- Cruise offer evaluation Recently, I was extended an offer from Cruise in vehicle integration. MS mechanical+ 7 YOE; 122k TC Detroit area L4 $160k 30% bonus $15k relocation (taxable) $15k sign on 100k/4yrs Any thoughts on offer/ pushing for L5? Is this offer worth compromising the great WLB I have currently? #auto #cr
- vote Cruise Offer Eval Just got verbal numbers from my recruiter for Cruise Base 200 Stock 450 - 500 Grant over 4 years. (no mention of sign on but I expect one I guess) Only interviewed because a recruiter reached out on Linkedin. Interested in hearing what other people on blind have to say about this and if should j
- Cruise offer I am expecting an offer from Cruise. The recruiter provided below details so far: Sr. HW Engineer Base: 205k Bonus: 30% RSU: 200k/4yrs RSUs can not be cashed out before May 2023. Is this fair offer? Recruiter says Cruise does not offer sign on bonus. Is the bonus guaranteed? Currently at Microsoft
- Cruise offer evaluation Current TC $230k, 5 YOE Cruise offer: $160 base, 50k bonus, $180k RSU (over 4 years) Similar roles in hardware. Thoughts on Cruise RSU value and chances of IPO?
- vote Which L4 offer to take - Google, Databricks, Cruise, Argo AI Edit: took google in the end. Got offers from a few places. Google has the most interesting work, Databricks I would learn the most, Cruise has the nicest team, and Argo has a mix of everything (but AV companies may not see as much growth). Which do you think is the best? Current TC: 250k Location
- vote Offer @ Cruise Title: Senior Software Engineer 2 Base: 200k Sign bonus: 45k Annual Bonus: 30% of salary (45% for exceeds expectations) RSUs: 340k over 4 years Should I accept or try to get better/similar comp at a different company? Concerned by some reviews of Cruise on here. Currently L5 @ AWS YOE: 7 TC: 200k
- Cruise offer - Need guidance Hi there, I have a verbal offer and expecting a formal offer from Cruise for an IC4 level role in Engineering. Tried to read some reviews here and I am confused if its specific engineering teams that have serious burnout or is it company-wide? I read that the Engineering culture is toxic in some wa
- vote Offer Comparison - Meta vs. Cruise Meta - Software Engineer (E4) - Base = $175k - RSUs = $104k per year - Annual Bonus = 15% of base - Signing bonus = $70k - TOTAL = $375k Cruise - Machine Learning org, established team related to data labeling - Senior Software Engineer 1 (L4) - Base = $215k - RSUs = $130k per year - Annual Bonus =
- Cruise staff swe offer Hello Guys I expect to receive a cruise automation staff offer.The initial verbal offers (tc around 430k) seems low ball. But seems there is room for wiggle. What should be the range for staff offer at cruise? Current tc: ~430
- vote Offer evaluation Stripe vs Cruise Asking for a friend who works at Indeed TC 180 YOE 2 Stripe Base 180k Bonus 10% RSU: 140k per year TC: 340k Cruise: Base: 205k Bonus: 75k RSU: 125k TC: 405k Also wondering about IPO outlook for each company?? #offer #cruise #stripe #tech
- Cruise offer evaluation Recently got an offer from cruise (L4) Base 185k Bonus 30% (55500) RSU 47500 (190k over 4 years ) Sign on 35k First year TC 323k Yoe : 4 I see lot of posts about L5 and all the offers have 360k RSU amount, why there is lot of difference between L5 and l4 RSUs ? Any suggestions would be appreci
- Evaluate Cruise Offer Initial offer from cruise for senior engineer 1. 180k base 30% target cash bonus 275k equity / 4 years no signing bonus tc: 303k phd+1.5 yoe current tc: 190k which parts will they budge on? and how should I value equity? any other comments/help would be appreciated. thanks
- vote Cruise offer evaluation Cruise offer - Level: L4, Location: SF Base: 190k Bonus: 30% RSUs: 220k/4years Sign on bonus: 50k Current TC: 275k Edit- Title: Embedded Software Engineer
- Cruise offer eval Got an offer for FW development on silicon team (HW): Comp - Base: 220k/ Bonus target: 30%/ Stock: 500/4/ Sign on: 50k YOE: 14 Current TC: 340k Also, any warnings/pitfalls to look forward to? The immediate team seems nice, but seeing extreme reactions here, so not too sure
- Cruise rescinded offer I hadnt even started working there because of visa, but now they just called me they had to rescind offer for business reasons :( How’s waymo doing btw? What about other self driving companies? Assuming most are just burning cash - any worried about running out of cash any time soon? Are you all on
- Cruise offer Hi all, I just got a verbal offer from Cruise for Sr. SE Embedded System and would love your opinion about TC. Looking for real and honest comments :) 170k base 30% bonus/year 250k rsu/4years YOE: 7 How good is the offer? Should I negotiate more? #swe #tech #cruise
- Cruise Offer negotitation Please help evaluate GM Cruise offer. Associate Machine Learning Engineer Base: 170k + 34k bonus RSU: $110k (over 4 years) YOE: 2 years before MS and 8 months as an intern post-MS. How to provide data points for negotiation? #compensation #cruise #cruiseautomation #waymo #zoox
- vote Cruise offer evaluation Base: 215k + 30% bonus (65k) Stocks: 420k/4 Sign on: 30k TC for first year (excluding sign on): 385k yoe: 5 #tech #cruise #offer
- vote Roku vs Cruise offer Roku: 240k base 60k stock (each year) Cruise: 188k base 56k yearly bonus 95k worth of rsu (each year) 25k sign-on 8 YOE, living in San Jose! Which one would you choose? Why or why not? FYI, Cruise valuation is 19B and no IPO yet. There is still chance to negotiate with Cruise.
- Evaluating a cruise automation offer Currently at FANG, 5 YOE, TC ~330K. Cruise offer: ~ 230K(base)/90K(bonus)/300K(RSU,4yrs)/25K(signing bonus).
- Cruise offers?!? Is equity in Cruise offer on Cruise itself or GM stock?
- Cruise Offer I just got an offer at Cruise for a Senior Hardware role. Salary: 150,000 Annual Bonus: 50,000 RSU: 250,000/4 years TTC: 262,000/year Thoughts?
- Cruise offer evaluation Hi, got an offer (senior swe) from Cruise. May i ask how does it look like ? Thanks ! Location: Seattle Base: 230K Bonus: 69K RSU: 500K (over 4 years) yoe: 11 years
- Cruise SWE offer I’m expecting an offer from Cruise. Would like to know the work culture at Cruise. My hiring manager is planning to downgrade me by 1 level saying if I perform well there, I can be promoted within 6 months, how true is that? Current TC: 🥜 #cruiseautomation#cruise#cruiseoffer #cruise #software
- Cruise Offer Feedback I received an offer from Cruise for S/W. Base: 170k Bonus: 30k RSU: 60k split over 4 years. YOE: 5 1. Help me understand how good/bad the offer is. 2. What is the approximate value of cruise stock price? 3. How can I sell the stocks once vested?
- vote Help decide Facebook vs. Cruise offer Hello folks, I have 4 offers from Facebook, Cruise, and Google, and Amazon. I have a separate poll with them all but since only Facebook and Cruise are offering remote I am creating a new one to compare Facebook and Cruise and see which one would be better without Google on the table. Facebook: L
- Cruise Offer Eval Hello! Need help evaluating this cruise offer. L5 IC Base: 225k RSU: 300k over 4 years Bonus: 30% Total Comp: 367k Current TC: 230k YOE: 7.5 Some things to consider, I’m currently a severely underpaid L6 manager at my current company which is very similar to Cruise (not Lucid). My WLB is terrible
- Cruise hardware offer My wife just got an offer from cruise for senior hardware engineer L4 position Base - 150k ~ 175k Stocks 90 ~ 111 /4 every year 30% bonus target Is she being low balled ? Tc : 200k
- vote Cruise IPO Folks at Cruise! When do you think the company will go public?
- offer eval Cruise Automation Hi, got a verbal offer from Cruise for Senior Software Engineer (infra team). Base: 215k cash bonus: 65 RSU: 270k / 4 Sign on: 10k TC: 347 (excl sign on) YoE: 6/7 thoughts on this one?
- Cruise offer eval Got an offer for FW development on silicon team (HW): Comp - Base: 220k/ Bonus target: 30%/ Stock: 500/4/ Sign on: 50k YOE: 14 Current TC: 340k Also, any warnings/pitfalls to look forward to? The immediate team seems nice, but seeing extreme reactions here, so not too sure
- Cruise offer - Help Received an offer from Cruise. Need some help understanding the potential room for a negotiation: Level: L8 (Eng IC) Base: 240 Bonus: 30% Equity: 2 M (4 year) I feel like the Equity portion is a bit on the lower side given Cruise is far away from a liquidity event. Does Cruise negotiate?#engineeri
- Cruise offer evaluation Recently, I was extended an offer from Cruise in vehicle integration. MS mechanical+ 7 YOE; 122k TC Detroit area L4 $160k 30% bonus $15k relocation (taxable) $15k sign on 100k/4yrs Location: SF Any thoughts on offer/ pushing for L5? Is this offer worth compromising the great WLB I have currently
- Cruise Offer Opinion Hey all, I have a Cruise Ofer for System Test Engineer: - $130k This is the best and final offer I got from Cruise as I denied the previous 2 already. What do you all think?
- Cruise L4 offer eval? 185k base, 30% bonus, 170k in RSU over 4. Possible signing not established yet. Thoughts?
- Considering cruise offer I'm considering a senior swe offer at cruise with more interesting work than my current job. There's a 30% bump in TC from 220 to 260. The commute within SF after doing SF to MTV is attractive as well. I had an internal offer to switch to a waymo team as well. Any advice from people who've made sim
- Cruise offer evaluation - STPM Hi, Expecting an offer soon from Cruise for STPM role. Do follow numbers look right? L4 Base: 170k Sign on: 35k Bonus: 50k RSU: 100k (25k per year) YOE: 10 #offer #tc #evaluation #cruise #cruiseautomation
- vote Urgent help : HBO vs Cruise offer Hi, have a deadline tomorrow and have two offers to evaluate looking for help from esteemed blind community. Pending interview next week : Amazon, Visa Not sure how to manage with deadlines tomorrow as recruiter won't extend deadline :( Current tc: 165k Yoe 6 HBO - senior software engineer Base
- Cruise has started rescinding ML Eng offers Cruise rescinded my offer yesterday. L5 Sr ML Engineer, 290K + paper money 2.5 YOE
- Cruise automation offer evaluation What is it like to work at Cruise Automation. Currently: Amazon sde1 145k tc Cruise: IC2 210k tc Both are in Seattle
- Cruise offer evaluation : staff swe Anticipating cruise offer for staff swe in the ML track. Expected TC ~650K (~50% of which will be in cruise RSU). Current TC: ~550K. 8Yr YOE. L6 SWE Worth jumping? Concerns: -- blind reviews suggest terrible WLB and management -- leave real G stock $ for potential paper money -- not too unhappy
- vote Offer Comparison: Cruise vs. Stripe vs. Rivian vs. Meta Meta - I have been approved for E4 offer - No comp details yet - Product Pipeline (not system) Rivian - Internal dev tools team - Senior software engineer - Base = $185k - RSUs = $75k per year - Annual Bonus = 10% of base - Signing bonus = $20k - TOTAL = $299k Stripe - Stripe Connect team, brand n
- Cruise offer related questions Appeared for an onsite on Tuesday and received verbal offer from recruiter on Wednesday. I didn't do well in a system design round so got down leveled to software engineer (applied for senior software engineer role). I'm a staff software engineer at NI. I have following questions : 1) What is the t
- link HW offer from Cruise Automation Expecting Cruise offer for SoC design. Can't find much data here or levels.fyi Yoe:6 TC:225k I am thinking of asking 180k base + 50ksignon + 300k stock/4yrs as it's not IPOed. Cruise has 30% yearly merit bonus. #offer #cruiseautomation #hardware #semiconductor #microsoft #salaries
- Apple vs Cruise Offer Base / Stock (4 yrs) / Sign-On / Annual Bonus Apple: 215k / 300k / 100k / ~10% (TC ~340k) Cruise: 220k / 230k / 40k / 65k (TC ~350k) Suggestions? Both ML/AI-related positions. Still negotiating, but not sure how much higher I can go (Cruise already went up by ~120k). Also, Cruise RS
- vote Cruise offer evaluation (expiring soon) I wanted a third person’s perspective who is not that biased about Cruise (lot of calls and feedback indicates that Cruise especially my team which is ML accelerators is not bad, in fact it has good culture) I got 2 yoe with master’s I have been offered 190k base + 40k signing + 20% bonus + 200k/4
- vote Offer eval: Cruise vs Coinbase vs Citadel Got 3 offers recently. Interestingly, all 3 company names start with "C". Cruise (SF): base: $230k bonus: $70k equity: $280k/4 sign-on: 0 Coinbase (SF): base: $180k bonus: 0 equity: $800k/4 sign-on: $20k Citadel (NYC): base: $500k bonus: 0 equity: 0 sign-on: $220k (to cover relocation & my unvest
- Cruise automation Sr. Software offer eval Received a verbal offer from the recruiter - Role - Sr. Software Eng. Base - 190 K Bonus - 57 K Equity - 170K in Cruise stocks (1 + 4). Location - Seattle YOE - 6 Current TC - 162K base + 21K Bonus + 85K equity (in seattle) Overall Cruise is offering more in cash but less in Equity. Not sure abou
- What’s Cruise senior offer like? Would 400k be possible? Current TC 320k.