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- vote Hey FIRE Aspirants. What’s your plan? I have seen FIRE has been trending all over. So wanted to see what blind community thoughts are. SDE TC: 175k FIRE = Financial Independence and Retire Early
- Companies paying 300k+ at 3 yoe? Can any non-financial companies hit this? What are some of the highest payers for SWE? Edit: Talking about initial offers without stock appreciation
- What’s it like at Bolt? I am expecting an offer from Bolt, and I was wondering –what is it like over there: • Is the WLB alright? 4 day work week sounds awesome, but is it real? • Are the financials doing alright? (As in are y’all expecting any layoffs or something like that anytime soon?) • Are folks getting promoted a
- Is it good to move product manager role after 12 years of technical engineer profile ? Guys is it good move professionally and financially to move to product manager profile after 10 years software engineering profile? What's pros and cons?
- vote Brex vs Ramp Searching for new pre-ipo companies in the fintech space. A few colleagues joining Brex. Ramp offers similar products as Brex, two years younger and half the valuation. I prefer Brex because of the two co-founders, more complete product offerings and better mission statement that's similar to Shopi
- GS strats compensation for new hires How much does goldman Sachs pay to financial modeling analysts in the engineering division when hiring straight out of college after completing masters
- vote Which company looks better on the resume? Citi (the bank) or TIAA (the financial services company)? For an SWE/Tech role.
- vote Law school? Im engineer two years exp. I enjoy my job, but just curious purely financially, Is it worth to go to law school?
- At what point did you realize you wanted more? Specifically, more TC, more net worth? Was it just being on Blind and seeing what was possible? Was it looking at your family's financial circumstances? Did you just have a drive to succeed? What was the motivation, what were the moments? TC: 155K YOE: 6 @google @netflix @amazon @facebook @met
- Work doesn’t match job title I work as a business intelligence engineer, but I rarely create dashboards. My day to day mainly consists of ETLs from various financial data sets and recently have been creating cluster analysis with our data and various machine learning methods. Should I go ahead and ask for a title change to enco
- vote Accept Google L4 offer? (downleveled from Meta E5) I'm a Meta E5. Feel stressed at work and i am going to have a kid soon this year. Should I take Google L4 offer to have better wlb , mental health and time to focus on my family? For more context, spouse is Google E5 so we dont struggle too much financially with double income Current TC: 300 post
- vote Capital One vs Discover Which one is a better move for a non-SWE Financial Analytics role move
- Looking for referrals. Please consider helping out. I have extensive experience in Fintech space with payments and high financial trade systems. Looking for referrals. #sofi #square #apple #servicenow #stripe #godaddy #microsoft #engineering #software #swe #fintech Yoe 3+ TC 100K + unknown bonus.
- Advice for a 21 year old? What advice would you give a 21-year-old just starting their career in SWE? Financially and work-wise?
- Sick of being poor, will sell soul for career advice I'm a dummy with a humanities degree approaching the end of my twenties that is disillusioned after coming across this website. I want to buy a house, start a family, take care of my aging mother and eliminate my crippling student loan debt. How do I go from poor overworked baggage handler to fina
- Got offer of 55k euros pa startup company in Germany. YoE : 12 Is the salary offered lesser than German average salary for my YoE? If my salary is 30 Lpa in India is it worth taking offer financially? 🤔 #salarycomparison #swe #software #engineering
- Looking for referrals to FAANG Anyone willing to give me a referral for a Senior Data Engineer role in any FAANG companies. Looking to make a jump from Hedge Funds / Financials to Tech. 14 years of Datawarehousing / Data Engineering experience TC - 195k
- vote Airbnb Eng Mass Exodus? Heard some rumors that senior engineers (and PMs) are leaving Airbnb after the CFO news. Any truth to it? How is the sentiment among engineers at Airbnb?
- High paying tech jobs in Chicago. Chicago Jobs that pay well. Are there any companies that pay west coast type salaries for system engineers or software engineer? Excluding anything in the financial industry.
- SpaceX Career Path How would a highly motivated SWE make his way from working at a financial institution to work at SpaceX? Is Boeing or another industry peer a good stepping stone? IDC about the WLB, want to be a part of pushing humanity forward
- Software Engineering Manager Job offer I received a job offer from a financial company in NC area. Moving from Principal SE to SEM. Any thoughts on the offer ? Counter Offer ? Title: Software Engineering Manager Base: 171,500 Bonus: 10% (Performance based) YOE: 12+ #offer #counteroffer #tech #finance
- Nordstrom Hi Guys, Got an offer from Nordstrom for a Senior Engineer role. Wondering if anyone can share insight on work culture, tech stack and how the company is doing financially. Thanks in advance.
- LaunchDarkly? Tired of FAANG, thinking of interviewing with LaunchDarkly. Does anyone have any experience with them? What's the level of engineering talent? Are they financially secure (i.e. will there be layoffs within 1 year of my joining)?
- Do Tesla and SpaceX pay engineers well? Do Tesla and SpaceX pay engineers well compared to FANG? Did any early engineers become millionaires working at Tesla? Would it be financially lucrative to join a similar boring company at a very early stage?
- Where would I fit in at Stripe? What level would a Senior Director of Engineering from traditional financial company ie Citi/Goldman Sachs/JPMC//Deutch/Schwab fall in Stripe? It looks like they have so many management levels. #stripe
- How is Stripe doing? Anyone here works at Stripe? What is the work culture in engineering like, how is the company doing (financially and growth wise)? Got pinged by recruiter and looking to understand about the culture, engineering challenges and company health.
- Seeking Referral to BlackRock Seeking referral to BlackRock software developer/engineer role. Have worked at large financial institution and now small tech company. LC:250+ TC:75K YOE:3+ #referral #blackrock
- Brute force way into hedge funds as quant trader Can I brute force way into quant trader/ researcher roles? I have enough background in statistics, comp sci & financial engineering courses. With 1-2 months study can I get in?
- Seeking Software Developer Referral to Paychex and ADP Seeking software developer/engineer referral to Paychex and ADP. Have worked at large financial institution and now small tech company. TC:75K YOE:3+ #referral #paychex #adp
- Where to go after Google? I am a L6 SWE turned manager and over stayed my tenure at Google. I like the WLB and friendly environment here. Which company I should choose for maximizing happiness and financial prospects? TC:450k
- Meta trouble - rumors vs reality Rumor # 1 - Meta is having financial troubles and has to do a hiring freeze. Fact 1 - Meta has hired more engineers in first 4 months of 2022 than entire 2021. If you pay top of the market and reduce the hiring bar, this is what happens. The hiring freeze is only for SWE roles and MLE roles and also
- Household taxable TC crossed $1M. Now what? Wife & I earn, the two kids don't. We are 35+. Both are experienced Staff engineers in large cap companies that pay competitively. Our total TC crossed $1M couple years ago. We live in Cupertino in a medium SFH 2500sqft paying a large mortgage. Max out every tax advantaged opportunity. We both think
- Best Indian salary at 11 YOE Hi, What is the best salary someone could make with 11 years of experience in software industry? Asking to figure out for everyone the possibilities on financial side of life. I make 65 lpa and feel I have not achieved anywhere close to the best.#engineering #software
- vote Fed’s “Easy Money” policy is bad for big tech - Engineers become too wealthy from the stock appreciation due to low interest rates. - Talented labor leaves the market to FIRE, take startup/less highly compensated jobs, etc due to financial success. - Big tech has a labor shortage further driving up wages.
- link My teams in Amazon are hiring Are you looking for an opportunity that will help revolutionize the way big data sets are cataloged, discovered and searched for one of the world’s largest financial data systems? Are you interested in innovating and building platforms that use machine learning to identify anomalies and provide insi
- vote Two Jobs I am a fresh grad and have two SWE offers? 1 - Full-Time Employee (Top-3 Financial Company) 2 - Contract Full-Time (Startup Company - Flexible Timing) Should I sacrifice all of my time for money? #engineering #software #swe
- Quit my job? Should I quit my job now and prepare for interviews? Finding it difficult to both given the demands of the job. Financially I definitely can support myself with my current job but curious how other engineers have handled this situation. #engineering #swe
- How did Will Gaybrick (Stripe CPO) became successful so fast? I follow the careers of unicorn c suites for research and I have never seen a faster rise than Will Gaybrick’s. The dude was a software engineer at no name startups and somehow became a VC partner, and then immediately became a CFO at Stripe and now CPO/CFO. He has no finance or product work experi
- What does FAANG provide ??? Blind is full of “TC OR 🦵🪨” and YOE. What makes the “big tech” work experience better? Is the goal financial or is the goal work experience, or is it something else all together? Asking for a friend … #engineering #software #swe
- Decision, decision, decision... Lucky to have SWE/QD internship offers from Akuna, DRW, IMC and Virtu, no idea which one to choose. Looking for inside opinions. Thanks!
- Left a great job for a startup but it sucks The company was misrepresented during interviews, growth numbers are terrible, the leadership is not nearly as good as they presented and engineering in general is a total disaster. I really want to leave but only been here for a few months. What can I do? Also took a big pay cut and having difficu
- Any thoughts about Metromile (SF) as workplace for engineers? Curious how their engineering culture is and TC range for software engineers. Will be great if anyone can share any info about it's financial stability and if it's a good idea to join them.
- Is Doordash the next Wework or is it actually doing well? interviewing for an engineering role at DoorDash, but worried about its financial outlook since it’s a softbank funded company like wework. can anyone provide any insight on Doordash’s outlook? is it a good company to join right now? thanks!
- PSA: who is still hiring? Hey Blinders, Given that the financial market is seemingly grim, and there are people still stuck with toxic jobs, low pays, and RTO compulsions; it would be great if we can create a list of companies who are in a stable position and still hiring across the board (SWE, PM, Data Analysts, Data Scien
- vote Grab India or Arcesium which one is better? Grab financial group India is offering 18 base + 3 lakhs JB (2 years clawback) + 15% perf bonus + 16100k dollars stock(50% are RSUs and rest are esops of grab financial group) + 67k relocation bonus Total CTC (4 years) :- 36.37 lakhs pa Arcesium is offering 20 base + 2.5 lakhs JB + 1.5 - 2.5 perfor
- Sales engineer job profile review Can somebody please review it based on Career growth Financial growth In comparison with a Sdet or product manager profile
- After working as ETL developer for 11 years, can I get a job as swe in Faang If I do leetcode (Ds, algo, system design) , will I be considered for swe in Faang. I have 11 years of experience as ETL developer (consultant at American experience, Barclays , Nomura, all financial institution).#engineering #software #swe #switch #careerswitch
- vote Robinhood L2 vs Square L5? Have two offers. Same comp. 290K. L2 Eng @ robinhood L5 Eng @ square Both good teams. Want to optimize for an enjoyable day to day life as well as financial upside from equity. What should I choose? Current TC - 270K
- vote Least cognitively demanding STEM discipline (at tier 1 grad schools)? - Pt. 3 (… with relatively *lower* reqs. on ability to analyze abstract complexity, originate novel insights, resolve counterintuitive subtleties, quickly grasp new fields of knowledge, synthesize different paradigms, etc.) Eliminated in previous rounds: Biology, Chemistry, Financial Engineering
- Data Engineer as a career path Can somebody please tell me how is data Engineer career in terms of growth technically and financially in comparison to development, Qa, Dev ops