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- vote 😫Amazon makes me money sucker🤡 I signed an offer with Google, and now I have got an offer from FB with potential 50k+ each year. I am thinking of rejecting G and accept FB. However, I feel like a trash by doing this step. I blame Amazon for how greedy I have become. Amazon has been screwing my financial situation over the last c
- Should I accept Google offer if they offers same salary/compensation as my current company? Hi Recently I got an offer (verbally) from Google. I am currently working in a Startup as Staff eng, with 12 year exp. My current compensation 50 base, 10% basic and staryup stock. Google India's offer L4 28 base 20 stock 15% bonus HR might compensate the difference 2lac with joining bonus. I got l
- vote Bloomberg team: Indices or Derivatives? I have an offer from both the Indices and the derivatives in financial analytics org of bloomberg. I liked both the team work and their culture. Bloomberg employees, any help regarding which should I choose? I want good work, with good wlb and potentially more bonus. Getting offer for senior softwar
- Facebook London E4 salary vs Current India salary I interviewed late last year for E5 but was recommended for E4. I am waiting for an E4 offer, the recruiter said I will get an update sometime in Feb or March, as the waitlist for E4 is long. My wife and I make around 40-45 LPA combined in India, so my questions are : 1. What would be the equivalen
- vote Negotiation after accepting an offer? I have already accepted an offer from company A. However I received another offer today from company B with 20% more TC. I absolutely hate company B as it’s more of a Junior role with horrible tech stack hence I have made my decision to join company A at any cost. But also I wanted to make some fin
- Ready to retire but still don't feel I'm a strong engineer The last few years has been extremely financial rewarding, my NW is currently at ~5M if exclude the pre-IPO stock from another company - which will IPO in the next 2 years and by then my NW will easily exceed 15M. With that said, I'm still extremely curious with various technology, and am always am
- vote Does accepting a DevOps role put me at a disadvantage for SWE roles later? New grad and just received a compelling offer for DevOps at a financial firm (TC: ~200k). I like it and am good at it, but I went to school for CS and always wanted to have a backend SWE role. Is there any risk of being pigeonholed in the future by recruiters? #devops #tech #recruiter
- Question for my JP Morgan SWEs. (Others can weigh in too) I received an offer from JPMC (Florida) and apparently the team uses React and Springboot and will migrate to/is using AWS. These are technologies I want to work with and I have 1 YOE and nothing to show for it at my company as I work on maintaining legacy horse shit. The folks I spoke to said tha
- How should Bloomberg software engineer plan career path? I’ll join Bloomberg soon as new grad software engineer (Didn’t get Google return). But actually from very beginning I’m super inclined to join BBG because this opportunity to open door to finance/Wall St for me, and I like quantitative a lot. I’ll try my best be great financial software engineer. B
- vote Would you move to Snap from Facebook? I interviewed at Snap LA office and got L6 manager offer, waiting for the numbers now. I checked levels, it will probably 620k to 650k. I am making 550k now at FB seattle, M1 managing 14 engineers/scientists. Financially, it might be the same, considering the tax. Will you make the move? Is it a ca
- Story of my life! Indian guy, grew up - I would say barely made it - in lower middle class family of 4 (parents, elder sister and I), I still remeber living in a chawl 10x10 living room, 8x8 kitchen, with tin roof shed overhead, no toilet in house. Always a makeshift bathroom (did not have 4 walls) using just piece
- SoFi is the next Tesla For all those of you out there looking for the next big thing, you must check out SoFi. We have been flying under the radar but have been growing like crazy and the company is about to take off like a rocketship once we IPO. We've had many ex-FAANG people join SoFi because they know it's going to be
- vote Snap research vs. engineering at FAANG I've been offered a research position at Snap and I am still in the midst of some interviews for engineering roles at FAANG-type companies. I'm considering just accepting the role at Snap as I'm decently happy about it and interviews stress me out to no end. This would be my first job out of grad s
- vote Twitter vs Twilio Have accepted an offer as a partner engineer at Twitter. Am way more interested in Twitter's product and business than I am in Twilio's and believe I can learn more at Twitter Additionally, Twitter role has little to no travel requirement offering me bettrr WLB. While at Twilio I have to travel ext
- Overcoming financial insecurity Hey all, Growing up in a lower middleclass family where my parents worked really hard and long hours, I didn’t exactly have financial freedom and privileges which I think has developed a financial insecurity in me. I am graduating with an undergrad (21 right now) soon and I accepted a job at Amazon
- microsoft vs. finance company Hello. I have two SWE offers: one from well-known company, Microsoft after an internship there and one from financial company. Pay is about equal at both companies (msft has higher comp package). Benefits better at Microsoft as well. Issue is that I am interested the financial team’s product and n
- Stripe’s New Offer policy on RSU Stripe made a big change in offer policy: rather than giving a four-year initial rsu grant, they give you a fixed dollar amount stock when every year ends at the value at the time. This is very different from other companies. People joins such a company for its growth while Stripe intentionally cap
- Offer evaluation at LA unicorn Got initial offer from unicorn in Santa-Monica Benefits are very nice, but financial side of offer is: Base - 175k Bonus 10% Stock options - worth $25k (told verbally) UPDATE below Position Principal Data Engineer (AWS). Total TC = 192K Currently: YOE: 15+. TC: 150k+20% = 180k Have a few day fo
- Need help! BIE Offer Currently a L5 Financial Analyst, a year and 7 months tenure at Amazon and performing at L6 Senior Financial Analyst capacity, and being considered for promotion this year. I’ve been doing mostly BIE related work and have a background in engineering with 5 years of engineering non-Amazon experience
- Do other companies offer compensation competitive to one at Google/Apple/FB? Do startups, financial institutions and such really offer compensation on the level with big technology companies? Recruiters often reach out to me but I am skeptical and do not want to waste mine (and their) time. I.e. $400k+ as a senior SWE - what companies will pay outside the big tech?
- vote Crazy to take Amazon L5 over Amazon L6? Asking for a friend who got two offers from Amazon, both non-Engineering. L5: Business Analyst ( ~ BI / analytics) Pro: Liked the role, the team seemed more chill TC: ~135K L6: Senior Financial Analyst Pro: level, pay TC: ~165K Is it crazy to take the L5 offer because the friend liked the role
- vote Quant Dev (hedge fund) vs. SWE (Facebook) I'm trying to evaluate two new grad offers: Hedge fund - Position: Quantitative Developer (in research team) TC: $170k base + performance bonus Facebook - Position: E3 (entry-level) software engineer TC: $124k base + $40k stock + bonus What are the career progressions like for quant dev? If I d
- Reject google offer and now want to reapply Non-Eng. Rejected an offer from Google 9 months ago to accept an offer at an early stage startup. This was a full offer letter, passed committee. Wanted to take a risk and try something new vs doing the same financial reporting work I’ve always done. It hasn’t gone well and we are basically out of
- Offer Evaluation - Amazon, London vs. Cohesity, Bangalore Hi community, I would like to seek some help to evaluate a couple of offers. The details are as follows:- College - Tier 2 in India YOE - 16.5 years Current Position - Staff Engineer in one of the leaders in EDA industry Current Comp - 55 lpa Amazon London Position - SDE2 (L5) Base - 80k GBP Signo
- vote Microsoft vs Well funded startup I have got 2 offers in hand, Edit: (location: Canada) 1. Microsoft Not remote 130k base 120k stocks split over 4 yrs 20k sign on 0-20% target bonus 2. Startup in financial management domain They provide all sorts of tools to enterprises for their financial planning, workforce planning etc. Rece
- Stripe L3 Offer - Team match help I’m getting an L3 offer from Stripe but I’m not sure if I want to move forward with the role I applied for. I’m looking for a team with really sharp engineers, manageable oncall, and good opportunities for career growth. I was between some of the infrastructure engineer roles or something more prod
- vote Chime (FinTech) vs Google vs Square Background: New Grad (B.S.) with 5+ previous internships Highly value: Culture/WLB > Growth/Upside > Benefits I have narrowed down my options to these 3 and having a hard time choosing. Remote offers are for current location. Note: These are maxed offers after negotiations. For new grad, Sq
- Should I shift to Booking.com Amsterdam YOE : 3 Current CTC : 30L (base) + 5L(bonus) + 25L(stock) = 60L Expected offer : 95K(base) + 25K(stock) + 10K(bonus) = 130k Euro Considering that at just 3 YOE I have already hit like the top of the market salary in India does it justify for me to move to Amsterdam with the offer that I have recei
- link Engineering I have about 15 yrs experience, got an offer from Priceline.com and they leveled down to senior software engineer. Total 150k base, 15 sign on and 15% bonus + 15k in stocks. Should I join or try negotiating for a principal ? I did well on the interviews, may be because I am from financial services
- PhD after 7 yoe, how to do it well financially? TC $420k with strong academic background and interests. Don't really like regular engineering and/or management tasks and consider to become a professor after pursuing a PhD. PhD targets are Stanford, UC Berkeley, Princeton, Cornell. I'm certain that I could get at least 1 offer from one of them.
- Looking for Staff/Principal SWE in Dubai Hey everyone, I'm not at Amazon anymore. I'm a SWE at a series B startup in Dubai that is growing extremely fast. We're looking for staff software engineers to help us migrate our monolith to microservices and build a kubernetes platform. I think we can consider senior engineers who aren't quite st
- Teams for new grad in Bloomberg Princeton? Just accepted the offer. Joining in July. Im looking at joining the Princeton office because idk how long it will take the NYC situation to die down and become stable. Other personal reasons too. Anyways... I saw that Bloomberg Engineering has teams for Financial and Trade Analytics. Wanted to kno
- AI & Data Operations - Data Dev Ops - Consultant @ Deloitte Current Title: Data Engineer YOE: 3years and 4 months Current company: Truist financial Corp Current salary: 90k Offer from Deloitte: 115k base + 10k sign in bonus + 15% bonus(yearly) Company: Deloitte Consulting Position: Consultant Location: Dallas/Atlanta Can we negotiate on the base sal
- How is Tile as a company doing now and how is their pay? A recruiter from Tile reached out for a Senior SDE position. Wanted to learn how the work culture is, how they are doing financially and how their usual pay is. I searched in blind and I don’t see a lot of details (besides some failed attempts for jokes.) Are they likely to IPO anytime soon?
- link UK Tax Code for an E4 SWE in FB London Does anyone know which Tax Code is assigned to Facebook London E4 engineers? (https://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/about.php) I've been trying to determine how much money I would have after taxes if I accepted an offer I was made. In fact I had scheduled a meeting with a financial advisor, but the
- Principal Product Manager - Oracle SaaS Engineering Had multiple rounds of interviews for a Principal Product Manager role with Oracle’s SaaS Engineering team. Yet to have the HR discussions on financials yet. I want to be prepared. Could someone help me on what I need to ask? My details: Total years of experience- 8 Current company- 140k base plus
- vote Scope or TC for seniors? Picking between two companies at the moment. By TC, I mean effective hourly pay. Usually when you have more scope, WLB may not be as good. I have no children, but would like to start settling down and have a family in the next few years. I do take care of my family/parents so they are dependent on
- Accepting two offers, pushing out the start date for one Thinking about accepting an offer for company X, working for 3-4 months, then joining Company Y. Would Company Y be pissed if during the background check they found out I worked for X? No malicious intent, just want Company X for reasons that are not as stupid as you may think and involve personal
- Interviewing after accepting an offer I have accepted an offer from one of the companies in silicon valley. I'm currently in financial crisis and need to start at new company ASAP since they're paying more than current company. Current TC: 100k New TC: ~200k Yoe: 3.5 My question is: Since the job market is very hot, I want to continu
- Financial Engineer Career I have the opportunity to take a role as a Financial Engineer in LA and wanted to learn more about the role and future opportunities. Is the future salary progression greater for FE versus SWE? Is it possible to go onto becoming a quant at a trading firm? How do the hours compare? Any useful informa
- Ola Offer Negotiation I have 5 yoe and my current TC is 12. Already have an offer of 30. What can I expect from Ola for an SDE - II role. Also I guess it's in Ola financial services don't know if they have a separate pay band. Anyone from Ola or who has recently joined or has any idea please comment. HR said that gen
- Rejected by tier2- companies I have worked at FANGs for several years and had prior experience. While not at the end of my career, I have reached financial stability and want to optimize for WLB, can't take 50+ hours/week anymore. I have deep tech management experience at senior levels. Unfortunately I keep being rejected by l
- Square (Cash App) SE L5 Offer; what team to join? I recently passed Square (Cash App) L5 interviews and am currently in the "team-matching" phase. I can choose between the following three teams: * Financial Platform Org (Bank Rails team) * Product Platform Org * Product Org ("New Product" team) I'm optimizing for WLB, lack of meetings, engineerin
- vote Career switch from full stack to data governance/meta data management. I’m a SE with 4 yoe as a full stack developer. Got an offer for a data engineer role involving data governance and metadata management. Would that be a good career switch? What would be a future career progression from here. Got the opportunity at a financial services company. Any thoughts or inputs
- Laid off, looking for referral Experience : Data Analyst (Financial company) DBA/Data Engineer (Healthcare company) Database Consultant (Microsoft), laid off. YoE: 8+ Education: Masters in CS Skills: SQL, Python, Tableau LeetCode: 600+ Recent interviews: Capital One, Onsite at Amazon, Google, for SDE roles (career-shift). No of
- vote Airbnb E5 vs Facebook E5 What would be a better move from career and financial aspect? Offers are comparable after negotiation (~470k per year). For some reason, Airbnb(no real data points) feels like a less hostile/demanding work place compared to Facebook(multiple friends). Not sure about career scope beyond L5 in Airbnb,
- Real lowball from Intuit for SWE2? Yoe 3.3 TC 210k All in Bay area For SWE 2 Intuit offered me 135k base, 100k rsu/ 4 years 10% annual bonus So ~160-170 TC. That is just too low. I have the following offers : Amazon L5 320k Doordash E4 300k I really like Intuit, heard good things about WLB and benefits. But don’t want my ca
- Does Booz Allen Hamilton 401k allow after-tax contributions and mega-backdoor Roth? 1 yoe hardware engineer considering a software engineer position at BAH for ~115 TC and wanted to know whether the 401k plan (I think through Fidelity) allows for after tax contributions and in service withdrawals to be able to use the mega backdoor Roth. EDIT: I have likely comparable offers comin
- vote Background check: late payments / delinquencies I am interviewing with a few large Bay Area tech companies for engineering manager roles. What impact will late payments (90 days) on unsecured lines of credit have? (I had near perfect credit up until recently and have a good explanation for the delinquencies. I am also working with the creditor
- Facebook London vs Amazon Seattle TC comparison I'm currently working at Amazon Seattle. I have an offer from Facebook London. SDE2 Current TC: 245K USD YOE: 5 Offered TC: 180 GBP E5 After Federal tax, I get about 170K USD. However, London has around 45% tax for my income, so I would be saving around 100 GBP which is around 140K USD. Also, co