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- link Cruise level and salary expectation I am talking to cruise for a staff ML role. I have 7+ yoe after PhD. Levels.fyi says people with 5 yoe got staff positions at Cruise, which implies title inflation. It also seems sr staff would be stretch (it is the top IC level at the company and I am 64 at MS). So the only option for me seems like
- L4/L5 salary in Cruise? #interview #auto Anyone can give me an idea of L4/L5 TC for a Sr. Product Manager role in Cruise? I'm in the interview process where discussions are going to take place with HR for TC. I have 17 YOE in ICT, IoT and Automotive.
- Cruise Automation Software Manager Salaries i was considering Cruise automation for some opportunities and wanted to get info on salary numbers? how is the compensation and work culture. i understand there are start ups cultures that focus on doing (like the Amazon 5 years ago) versus startups where people run around like a headless chicken.
- Cruise salary ranges I got an on-site at cruise and I was wondering what compensation will be like for a senior swe c++ generalist position in SF. I got 12+ years experience with the last 3 years as a tech lead. Coming from no name and unimpressive companies on the east coast.
- Cruise automation salary for Sr SDET How much does cruise pay for Sr SDET with MS and 10 years of experience?
- Software engineering referrals I am looking for referrals for Software engineering roles at Plaid, Salesforce, Netflix, Databricks, Stripe, Coinbase, Cruise, Roblox. I am also open to other companies on suggestions. Looking for companies with good salary ranges for entry-mid level career and growth opportunities. TIA #engi
- 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
- 31+ Final Interviews Until TECH OFFER! 1.5 years of interviewing Tier 1/2/3 companies. Atleast 50+ HR screenings telling me 100k base salary was impossible. Rejection after rejection. Endured 31+ final interviews! My final TC at Amex was 87k after a promotion too. Laughable! 3yoe in Products/Data Analyics (Florida) ——-2019 Amex - 81k T
- Cruise TPM TC Interviewing with Cruise for staff Technical Program Manager and can't really find salary info. Anybody know the band? L6 TPM TC 320k #cruise
- vote Comparing Amazon's offers I am the OP of https://www.teamblind.com/post/ZipwoG0q and https://www.teamblind.com/post/Negotiating-with-Amazon-igDbQdsq Because of Amazon's unusual compensation structure, I figured that to properly compare Amazon's offer against other offers, I have to consider multiple market and personal perf
- 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
- 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
- $100k of Cruise RSUs vs. $100k of cash? I'm about to do my final round interview at Cruise. If I get an offer then it will include a big proportion of RSUs (divided over 4 years probably). How do you all evaluate the value of RSUs in a company that is not publicly listed? My intuition is: - $400k of RSUs over 4 years is less valuable th
- 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 automation Senior software engineer Hii, Recently got offered Senior software eng at Cruise. Can i know the salary ranges for the role? The initial offer is something like: 160k base, 150k stocks and 30k annual bonus. How much can I negotiate?
- Annual Salary Increase Does anybody know what the annual salary increase is like at Cruise since they are a semi atart-up? evaluating offers right now and would like to project over the next couple years.
- Annual Cash Bonus at Cruise I see the annual cash bonus is pretty high at Cruise. Based on recruiters feedback, it’s paid at the end of Q3 (perf review time). I assume annual cash bonus will be tied with one's performance rating. Does the targeted cash bonus correspond to Meets Expectation (On Target Performance ) performance
- Cruise vs Shopify vs Nextdoor vs Instacart vs Splunk (potentially) I have gotten the following offers. YOE: ~15 years. Cruise: - TC: 335k - salary: 185k - annual bonus: 55k - sign on 30k - RSU 350k (total) over 4 years Shopify - TC: 220k - salary: 180 - RSU: 125k over 3 years Instcart - TC: 303k - salary: 185k - RSU: 476k over 4 years Nextdoor - TC: $274k - S
- Moving from Daimler to Cruise Anyone else made a similar transition from a more traditional company to a newer automotive vehicle company? Are there any benefits to this type of transition? Would you recommend it? How's cruise's culture? Also what's the average salary for entry level SWE @ Cruise in SF?
- why does Lyft not have talent directory like airbnb Why did Lyft not create any talent directory unlike Uber or Airbnb? Arguably Lyft pays higher salaries and potentially laid off better employees. Some of their executives shared spread sheet of employees laid off. Their severance is also lowest among the other high profile companies like Uber, Airb
- LinkedIn or Google I am interviewing for data scientist roles at tech companies. I am trying to compare offers and choose the best one. How do these offers compare? Google - L5 Base - 187k with 15% bonus, 470k RSUs, TC 335 LinkedIn-- Staff Engineer Base - 215 with 15% bonus, 675k RSUs, TC 416 Cruise- Staff data sc
- Product manager compensation range What’s the expected compensation range tor product manager at top 10-12 tech companies? From Amazon to Netflix, Cruise,google, fb, uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Pinterest, even Walmart labs if they pay well enough. YoE: 4yrs SDE, 3yrs product. Curious coz recruiters reach out for roles but give me range of o
- Are companies cutting pay before they’re allowed in the office? Long term remote work is obviously being taken advantage of and companies are cutting salaries but are they doing it now or when people come back? At cruise I was forced to take a 20% pay cut now even though we’re now allowed back in the office until Jan. It feels really crappy to me but wondering
- vote How much do you value liquid vs illiquid stocks? Assume a startup that has IPOed and then something like Argo, Cruise, Waymo, etc. that's still 3-10+ years away. How much more in stocks would you have to be given at the non-IPO companies to consider them over the IPOed company? Assume base salary, bonus percentage, signing bonus, etc. are all the
- Series A/seed startup offers I have 2 job offers for senior software engineer role from 2 small startups. One has raised series A and one got the seed money. The series A company has very cool technology which I’m interested in. The seed company doesn’t have amazing tech, but has super high profile CEO and a great CTO, which
- Internships at Waymo Just wanted to give y'all a heads up that Waymo Internship program is pretty shit. It appears to be completely different than Google. They don't assist with the J1 Visa applications and salary is surprisingly low compared to Cruise Automation / Lyft / Nuro / Aurora / Argo AI. [Edit: In their defe
- DE -> AS or SWE backend I am in the crossroads of interest vs money. I like analytics and anything related to ML, data science and deep learning. DS/AS cons are : - Less salary - Less openings - Lot of competition ( 100+ applications for even single position) - Ask is lot ( YOE 4+) - Interview process is not standardised
- Which tech company offers mega backdoor Roth 401k? I come to realize how it can greatly impact retirement savings amount whether or not your 401k has support for mega backdoor Roth. More specifically, the plan needs to have the following feature: - After-tax contribution up to 57k per year. - In-service withdrawal to Roth IRA. Below is a list of c
- What would be the layoff scenario in "rest and vest" companies during the upcoming recession? Business outlook is great right now. Companies can afford to hire employees and not treat them like Amazon, FB or Cruise Automation do. But when the economy is shrinking, people are not spending more, the "rest and vest" companies would need to change tack. Hence my question. This is meant for Sal
- vote What do you think of Argo AI's valuation? Recently completed interviews from Argo AI and things seemed to have gone well (Tech role), might expect an offer soon. I was contemplating if I should even pursue this, as I have almost finalized on joining NVIDIA. The salary at Argo looks great, but the stock offering is quite sketchy. They claim
- Cruise senior software engineer compensation A recruiter reached out to me regarding a senior software engineer role and asked about expected salary, blabbered about the regular competitive thing. He shot back with 250-307k is the range. And seems it is a balanced stock and bonus. Base seems good and rsu is the lowest compared to general stand
- vote Negotiating with Amazon I'm the OP for [Blind] Check out this post! Need help selecting offer (Software Engineering Career) https://us.teamblind.com/s/ZipwoG0q I turned Amazon down, and they came back saying that they are willing to put together another package, but they want a written commitment that I will accept that o
- Feeling Low!! Hi all, I want to take a moment and thank you all for taking sometime and many of you here gave me referral's, found amazing people here, no doubt world is surviving with the great people like you guys!! Im very happy that I met some awesome people here, but unfortunately despite being referred to
- Offered L3 at Cruise with 7 years of exp and almost a Master's Hello all, I had my on-site with Cruise last week and I thought it went pretty well. This was for a senior cloud position. Today the recruiter called me and let me know they wouldn't be moving forward with a senior/L4 offer. However, the recruiter said if I was interested they could put together
- Doubled salary but no promotion in 5 years Pretty much have been here after graduating. This was my dream company. My salary pretty much doubled since I've been here, but they won't promote me. My title is pretty much junior level, but basically been a doing senior level stuff for at least 2 years I feel. Recently a bunch of senior level eng
- BI Engineer salary in #India for 2 YOE Hi blinders, I work as a BI developer and i am looking to switch my current organization in the same profile. What salary can I expect for the same. YOE : 2 TC : 7lpa #India #dataanalyst #analytics #businessintelligence #tableau #adobe #adyen #airbnb #airkit #airtable #akasa #amazon #ampere #and
- Feeling Low!! Hi all, I want to take a moment and thank you all for taking sometime and many of you here gave me referral's, found amazing people here, no doubt world is surviving with the great people like you guys!! Im very happy that I met some awesome people here, but unfortunately despite being referred to
- vote Stay or leave advice Non-commission sales/TAM, 7 YOE, got an offer from Amazon for L5 SA in LA and OC and accepted to start in a few weeks. Have NOT given 2 weeks notice to current. Current TC: 165K(base + annual bonus) Accepted Amazon Offer TC: 205k(142k base) However, just received surprised promotion at current pla
- vote Microsoft or HBO? Hey folks, I recently interviewed at HBO and had a very positive experience. The offer TC is insanely competitive compared to my current TC. I am worried about the level of the offer. There seems to be a black-hole of information on how HBOs levels rank against other FAANG/large tech companies, so
- vote Possible income hack? Some people create their own company and have themselves as the only employee, then work at a company as a consultant, swe, or manager. For contractors, the paycheck is usually bigger than salaried employees but they won't receive the retirement, medical and other benefits from the actual company. O
- What is a good salary for Indian employees in product companies I have always heard each company has a formula to calculate range of salary for any employee. Do anyone of you know if there is any such formula to check if what I am earning is good? I don't want to go by websites to see how much each company is paying for specific designation, as the are flawed by
- vote Interviewed at Amazon for SDE3, but they offer SDE2 I have been interviewed at Amazon for SDE3 role that is Seattle based. Out of 5 interviews I performed very well in 3 of them, I struggled with one coding challenge, so I needed a hint and then I didn’t complete the solution on time. As a side note I must admit that the interview questions were rat
- SWE Interview journey, offers, rejects, tips. Warning: long post. TL;DR; at the bottom. (*In Blind mobile app, only the first half of contents are shown because the post is too long. The second half has been added in the comments section. There is no issue reading this in desktop browser from teamblind website.) I started prepping for intervie
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- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584
- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health
- vote Which of the following stocks will double fastest? If you were to risk all your wealth in one tech stock which one would it be at this moment?
- all stocks have gone up considerably high but I still lost 40 k due to day trading I would like to invest in longterm stock. Which stock will double in next 3-6 months? holding apple hoping it would run up to 130