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- 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
- vote New Grad Microsoft Vs Amazon offers Hi all, hoping to get some opinions on these offers Microsoft L59 in Sunnyvale, CA: 120k salary, 70k stock, 40k sign TC: 158k first 2 years, 138k after Amazon SDE 1 in Austin, TX 116k salary, 86k stock, 50k sign TC: -150k It seems like Amazon is a better financial decision due to income tax and l
- Twilio finance salary range I had a call with the recruiter about a financial analyst position at Twilio. She mentioned base ~100k and RSU package is 40k for 4 years. Is that RSU package low or comparable with finance at Twilio and with nontech roles in general? I just see posts on here about Twilio offers with 140k RSU / 4 y
- vote Amazon L4 Offer vs Other YOE: 2 I work at an adTech startup, leaving for growth and more $$ Current TC: 140k, no stock Received Amazon L4 offer SDE: Base: 130k Stock: 25 RSU Sign-on: 30k year 1, 25k year 2 TC: ~164k I have a competing offer from a not known company which is a midsized company with strong financials, great
- Any insights on Reddit as a company? What are you guys thinking of Reddit future specially after they hired ad chief from Twitter and Snapchat CFO? I have an offer and not sure if that would be a good move. TC: $650 Reddit offer: 350 base and roughly 200k per year RSU with 42.50 per share of current valuation. I am told that this w
- Do you keep your mortgage/rent below 25% base pay? A common rules of thumb in financial planning is to keep the mortgage/rent at 25% of take home pay. This means for a couple with dual engineer income, both quite successful at 200k base each, the amounts should roughly be: * 5k/month * ~1.05M for a 30 year fixed * ~700K for a 15 year fixed Keeping
- vote Amazon SWE 1 vs Grubhub SWE 2 I’m trying to decide between Amazon vs Grubhub offers right now, I’d appreciate any insights/perspectives into my dilemma! Here’s my personal pro/con list TC for both companies is the same at ~220k, both are for the NYC location Grubhub: + Higher Title (SWE II) + Higher scope of responsibility + I
- vote Facebook E5 vs Dropbox IC3 Amzn Current SDE3 Yoe- 11yrs TC-295k (with stock appreciation) recently got promoted. Additional stocks on promotion is <peanuts Location: Seattle (DBX is virtual first now so doesn’t matter) FB Offer -E5 SWE - they already mentioned this is the max for me TC: 195 / 600 / 80 I know FB can give
- What’s your portfolio risk ? Do you keep tab of the correlation among the investments in your portfolio ? I have a lot of tech stocks in my portfolio and they are all super correlated. The only non-financial asset I have is my house and that too is pretty correlated to the tech stocks since I’m located in a tech hub. And I’m
- India offer evaluation and career advice Current designation: Technical Architect(mix of team management and IC role) YOE: 10.5 TC: 🥜(29L) Offer 1: Grab Designation : Senior Data Engineer Base: 40.5L Variable: 6.5L Grab stock : 20L over 4 years Grab financial stock option: 20L over 4 years TC: 40.5 + 6.5 + 5 + 5 = 57L Joining bonus : 6.
- Withdrawing from Robinhood ASAP Withdrawing my $200k from the app as soon as I liquidate next week. If you want $0 commissions, go Fidelity all the way. You guys are market manipulators by cutting off demand to these stocks. When Robinhood ever get the balls to start dictating market activity and market pricing? So much for democr
- Stuck about what to do next Hello beautiful people. I am an engineer based out of India. Started my career with 3.5 LPA and currently I have 24 Fixed + 10% variable plus some stocks which I guess would be around 8 Lakhs per year which makes my TC approx 34 .I have 3 years of experience. I am poor at financial planning and all
- Negotiation tips for SWE offer Hi Guys, As mentioned in the title, I need guidance with my current situation. I have 4 offers currently, SAP : [newport beach, CA] Base - 150k Stocks - 12K/year Relocation - 10K Goldman Sachs : [Dallas] Base - 145k Joining Bonus - 20K [in January paycheck] Relocation - 13K Visa : [Austin] Bas
- Offer from Nvidia IC5 or Sr staff Qualcomm. Which one to choose? Hello guys, Qualcomm- Sr Staff - TC 530-535K Base - 230k+ Rsu-Total 350k vesting 3 yrs or 115k/yr + 150K sign on bonus + 15-20% annual bonus Refresher annual-100-150 K Final offer. Bay area VS Nvidia - IC5 - TC 450K Base-240 K + Rsu- total 600k with 4 yrs vesting or 150k/yr Sign on -60 k No
- 28 years old sde Hi, I work as sde and i am 28 years old.. i am earning around 250k per annum (due to increase in stocks it became 300k).. I have 250k as my overall portfolio(including emergent cash). what i need to do inorder to be come financially stable by my 40s Please provide your valuable thoughts around th
- vote Offer eval: Salesforce, NVIDIA, Google, Twilio Trying to decide which offer is best for future growth, career-wise and financial-wise. SWE, bay area/hcol. Breakdown: base/bonus/rsu (per year)/signon+anniversary Salesforce: 210k/15%/100k/30k+30k => TC: 310-340k + bonus (~31k), not sure about refresher pros: stable, potentially laid back cons
- Mba relevance in todays tech world? I have been considering an MBA degree for a while. Ive got a Bachelors in Engineering from India (2009) and I have always liked the idea of going to school in the USA. It will definitely enhance my non technical overall soft skills. I could do with some of that. Besides that though, how will it ben
- Netflix TC question Is it possible at all to make an equivalent of 40M of total TC (or accumulated 40M net worth just by investing own salary in Netflix stocks) over five years from 2017 to end of 2021 as someone who is very senior (ie, 20 yoe + leads project with 100+ engineers) at Netflix? Just saw a post from anothe
- Where to put all the money? I come from a poor family, I had no financial education. We have, surprisingly, 1 million dollars in cash that we keep in a single bank account checking for the past years. We know it is dumb. I'm a software engineer and my wife too, early 30's. We make about 500k together per year. We just bought
- Help me build a Neural Network to predict Stock Movement Hi Blind, I am currently making a neural network for stock prediction, I plan to mainly use technical indicators as my input. I am a software engineer with over 15 years of experience so I am confident in my tech skills. However I desperately need help on the financial side. If you or anyone you
- vote How many hours do you spend reading and researching about your investments per week I come from Software Engineering background so I'm still learning basics of financial markets and real estate. But I find really hard to keep up with constantly learning both Tech side of things (trying to rise up the career ladder) and then Investments (stocks, real estate, crypto, ETFs). I'm almos
- Offer evaluations Have the following offers from three startups Chime Financial(https://www.chime.com/) Base: 195k Private RSU's: 12800 units vested over 4 years. Each stock value ~40$ Location: SF C3.ai(https://c3.ai/): Series H startup building Enterprise AI Platform Base: 185k Bonus: 15% Stock Options: 45,000 sh
- How to value pre-IPO stock/RSUs (Attentive offer)? I have a few offers that I am deciding between, for a senior SWE position. One offer is from Attentive Mobile, which seems ready to IPO within a year. A good portion of my compensation would come from stock/RSUs. I would likely have zero RSUs at the time the IPO occurs. If the RSUs become worthless
- Goldman Sachs VS Grab Offer Posting from my friend's account since I have already resigned from my current company. I have received offer from GS and Grab. Offer Details:- Current CTC:- 16 LPA YOE:-2 Goldman Sachs:- Analyst in Systematic Market Making (SMM) team in GMD Base:-28LPA +Joining Bonus:-1.5 Lakhs + Year End Bonus:
- Long term growth and worth making a career in software development? Is it worth doing an MBA to switch careers for eventual long term growth? I am thinking of long term financial growth. No doubt doing it'll be extremely hard, but will it pay rich dividends in the future? Or how should I plan my career if I plan to stay in the software development field? My curre
- Need help in evaluating an offer I am a hardware engineer. My current compensation is : 130k base, $37500 @ 285 stock, 10k in bonus for Palo Alto location. I have an offer from a startup in stealth mode for 160k base and 23k shares(current value 0). The financial hit in savings is 10k between the 2 companies per year. If the star
- Advice requested Here is my situation: Non Eng Currently 185k base 40k bonus 100k refresh Vested: 5000 RSU (200k) yet to vest: 7000 RSU (3800 in next 12 months - 152k) 2.5 years on job Uber is pre IPO so true value of stock is likely 65 per share vs 40 used for above Pros: senior, nailed the role, resting and ve
- Startup Offer Evaluation Help Series A startup with about 9M in yearly Revenue and a few big customers My Profile: yoe: 10 years (8 as SWE elsewhere and last 2 years as DE) Current TC: 350-400K (base, stock, bonus) + 401K + stellar health plans Startup offer: 185K - Base No Bonus plans yet No 401K yet 28K stock option at ~280K
- vote Please Help: Intel G7 (150K base) vs Apple ICT3 (155K base) PAST: The Peanut Pay Trauma I have been working with Intel for the past 5 yrs. Got promoted to G7 mid-year 2021. I felt that my compensation was extremely low compared to competition (couldn't afford a house after 5 yrs in job). Prepared my ass out for 3 months and cracked APPLE interview. HW eng.
- Would you rather be doing something else? I take it that a lot of folks in tech especially from india and China ( not sure ) are minted by an educational system churning out doctors and engineers. In my case, I was good at math and science in school. Engineering and CS were my obvious options ( did not have the maturity or opportunity to f
- New to sales, fell into AE role- How long before jumping? Formerly an engineer for the same company, moved into sales within a large untapped territory. I’ve got a lot of student loans to pay down so I’m balancing loyalty for the opportunity and personal financial situation. Role: Outside medical capital equipment sales on all product portfolio. No direct
- Financial Advisor for Airbnb new joiner- worth it? I recently joined Airbnb (non-eng) and my unvested shares value is now > $1M. I’ve never grown up with wealth and have an opportunity to be represented by UBS through a connection. I’m curious if I should look into UBS and professional financial advising. I recently bought my first home so I don
- vote Do you have financial/tax advisors? Re-posting as a poll. I come from a working class family and I started my career in government. Now I find that I am making more money than I ever really thought I would make. I make pretty smart decisions with my money. I have a wife and kids. Our student loans are paid off. Two late model cars, o
- Is the money worth it? 25 with ~3yoe and TC of ~400k due to stock appreciation. Really don’t enjoy working and wake up every morning dreading the start of the work day. Feeling unproductive since July. Not really money motivated, but quitting to do something else seems like a bad idea. My NW is ~500k. Unsure how to priori
- Need help evaluating two offers I have the below offers from two private companies in the bay area. Company A: Base: 170k RSUs: 50k units each worth $10/share RSU window: Spread over 4 years RSU expiration: 10 years Yearly Cash bonus: No Yearly base increase: Yes Yearly equity refresher: Yes My thoughts: I believe t
- [Bangalore] Google L4 vs LinkedIn SSE vs Uber SSE-1 YOE : 6.5 years. SDE-3 at Flipkart (5 years @FK) Offered TC LinkedIn : 65L (Including 3L sign-on/joining bonus, have not started negotiation) : (Foundation Team) Uber : 76L (20L in stocks) (Riders/ Driver Solution Team) Google: ~66.5L (Low base: 27) (Google Assistant or Doc team) PS: Don't have a
- Joined MSFT BLR @L62 with 8YOE, time for promotion to L63? I started my career with a small companies and then gradually I practiced DS-ALGO and gradually moved to large product based company/ies. I have received this offer(~60LPA) for L62 now. I think it is good for me financially. I am thinking that I will work hard and would get promoted to L63 in a yea
- vote Offer evaluations Yelp(London) vs Dream11(Mumbai) Hi Guys, Would like to get your thoughts on the below two offers, as I have to make a decision in a few days Yelp(London) base: £65k RSU: £70k (Over 4 years) Sign-on and Relocation: £12k First Year CTC: £94k Dream11(Mumbai) Base: 24L INR ESOP: 12L INR (Over 4 years) Rent: 30000(After tax)/Month o
- Will I need to return Microsoft sign on bonus if I resign? I joined Microsoft in November 2019 and received $50k in sign on bonus split across two years. I am planning to interview with companies & based on my current timeline, I will likely be leaving Microsoft in August / September 2021 (before completing the two year mark) In that case : 1. Will I be
- Which active wealth management co do you recommend? Hi Professionals, For those who have more than 1M asset under financial management, which company/advisors do you recommend? Somewhere that you have some confidence about their longterm performance? I live in the SF Bay Area and I’ve been managing my own with a mix of target funds, ETFs, and stock
- Career Advice - Post si Test engineer or switch to other areas? #semiconductor #hardware Been in ATE environment for 7 years. Working on characterization, debug & enablement for scan/array/functional content. Lately I’ve lost the passion to work in the current env. Intel has its own custom tools and of no value outside. I’ve realized that after I started int
- vote Please help to choose an offer: Twitter-Uber-Confluent-[maybe Square] So, I had an interview bootcamp :) and got 7 offers. The choice is boilled down to those 4 companies in Subject. Twitter. Staff Engineer. No comp yet, recruiter told might go to the high band since I have strong competing offers. Told the highest is about 525 total. Vesting: 6-month cliff, then eve
- vote They think you are stupid enough to believe this This is what Meta wants you to believe happened: Hiring target for 2022- 10,000 people (hypothetically) Week 1 2022 cumulative hires - 200 Week 2 2022 cumulative hires - 400 Week 3 2022 cumulative hires - 600 Week 4 2022 cumulative hires - 800 ... ... ... Week 14 2022 cumulative hires - 2800 Week
- Do you have a financial advisor? I come from a working class family and I started my career in government. Now I find that I am making more money than I ever really thought I would make. I make pretty smart decisions with my money. I have a wife and kids. Our student loans are paid off. Two late model cars, only one car payment. No
- Help in buying choice - Tesla model Y working as SDE in Amazon, married, living in downtown seattle with spouse not working. Have 120K in savings, 150K in real estate and ~300K in stocks, Current TC:- 250K Planning on purchasing tesla model Y. Financially, I am thinking, if it makes sense to spend ~55K on model Y. I am planning on put
- Can I beat TC $270k as 100% remote in a low COL area? I live in a relatively low cost of living area (USA) with a total comp around 270k (pay, no stock/options). I am software engineer recently promoted to Director of Engineering with over 10 YOE. I don’t work for a big name software company. I’ve done well professionally and financially for my area, s
- How much house can I afford? I want to buy a house for longer period than just 5 years hence I don’t want to buy a smaller place, whatever is enough for me right now(no kids). Initially I wanted to plan for a budget of 1.3m but I am thinking if I should do more. Assuming my expectation is to make more money in the future, not
- vote Snap L4 vs Google L4 - Seattle Deciding between L4 SWE offers at Google and Snap. Snap is paying like 40-55k more depending on how you look at it and has larger scope of work but they would be putting more senior responsibilities on me, a higher workload, and no real in-office experience for the near future. In contrast, Google
- 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
- vote Meta E5 466k vs. Notion 550k Meta E5 – TC: 566k Y1, 466k recurring (without including refreshers) 215k base (15% bonus) 875k stock / 4y (refreshers 140-280k/yr) 100k sign-on (negotiating with competing FAANG but this seems close to maxed) Notion – TC: 550k 190k base 360k ISOs (net value at latest $10B valuation and exercising