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- vote Microsoft L60 vs Startup I am holding an offer from Microsoft. Now I have received an offer from a fintech startup. YOE: ~4 years Microsoft has offered L60 role. Team: Some team related to Microsoft Office / Microsoft viva learning (I don't know exactly) TC: 21L base pay, 20% performance bonus, 40k USD stocks(4years), 2L j
- vote [NEW GRAD] Plaid vs. Atlassian vs. Snap vs. Palantir UPDATE: Heading to Plaid!! Hey everyone, I've been really fortunate to receive full-time SWE offers from all of these companies, all for their respective NYC offices. The details and my pros/cons are detailed below. Let me know what you think the best choice is in the poll. Plaid: 190k first year,
- Twitter TPM Offer Got an offer to join Twitter senior TPM - but I have heard lots of toxicity going on right now, is that true? Lots of org changes happening. It’s very stressful and people are leaving! What does future look like at Twitter? Would love to hear from Twitter folks - on what’s going on and how are you
- Should i tell truth or not I work in the leading fintech as associate program manager. Our company revenue is 17m dollars last year. We provide card processing services to clients across the globe. From last one year we are over charging our clients and yesterday we got #engineer to know it. We were neglecting something be
- Is domain knowledge more important than TC and tech skills? I got an offer from a Fintech (startup), and the TC compared to Microsoft is almost the same, obviously Microsoft stock is more stable and I'm sure than in a long term Microsoft will bring more money to the table. I've been working as frontend dev in office 365 products and I feel that my domain kn
- Better places for working parents? I am a parent working in GSAM. Being able to wfh over the last year has been life changing for the better, and given me time with my young family that I would normally never have. Now DSol wants us to start coming back in and I am worried we won’t be able to do a hybrid of in-office and at home as
- Newbie here. Is everyone's TC really this high or is there some joke I'm not getting? I work in fintech but am not an engineer. I'm a back office guy who knows some programming but not enough to get paid to do it full time. Where I live -- Tokyo -- my TC of about 5M JPY (~45k USD) is pretty standard for someone doing my job. Younger folks work much longer hours for less. And I'm not
- Offer evaluation Finding it difficult to pick between a few different companies. I only interviewed at places that I legitimately thought I'd like to work at. This is in the EU but all numbers are converted to $ and levels normalised to senior and staff/lead. All vesting schedules are the same. 9 YOE. Company 1 -
- 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
- Looking For Referrals Hi Blind community, I'm a backend engineer at a fintech startup in the Bay Area. I joined the company a year ago and after one month at the company, I realized this was the worst decision that I ever made. The CTO is very paranoid about sharing the code with the engineering team because he's afraid
- vote Where to go next after RH Been at Robinhood for over a year, not loving it. Not really feeling the work/team and I feel like if I keep going I'll end up with no joy at work. Where can I go as a SWE that'd give me a similar comp and also give me a good challenge? TC: $600K yoe: 8 Reasons for not loving it: - no real growth
- vote McKinsey vs PM @ Startup as a New Grad I currently have 2 offers: - McKinsey BA (Digital Practice) in a Southern Office (90k/30k bonus/5k signing bonus -- in a MCOL area) - Associate Product Manager at a Series B Fintech (90k/.05% Equity/5k signing bonus -- NY or SF) My end goal is to be in tech (most likely in PM but I don't have enoug
- vote factors Choosing a startup CEO and the product leadership are Stanford, CMU, Harvard Alumni. 70% of the Engineering team is ex Uber, Twitter, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. the startup was founded in 2014 and valued at 1 B in 2020 and now it is 3B. It’s a e commerce startup with fraud detection and payments. The theme is arou
- Interview information for DE Engineering Manager (assuming M1) Currently a Senior Manager in the Data Sciences and Engineering space with 9 YOE. 5 years people management experience leading cross-functional teams (~10 direct reports, 2 of who are Managers) Have a round with the Director to talk about the role next week, What can I expect during that round? Al
- Offer Comparison between early stage startups I’ve got a few offers on the table or potentially incoming- all startups are small and growing quickly, all are past their Series A or B. How do you make a decision between different startup offers? There’s some large differences in base, equity, company culture, and other perks (one company operat
- Feeling very worried and depressed on choosing 1 offer over another I had 2 offers that I was particularly confused about, 1 from bloomberg and other from LinkedIn. Bloomberg offer NYC- 220k base + 50k annual bonus + 60k signon- 330k year 1, 270k year 2 Linkedin offer Sunnyvale- 160k base + 15% bonus + 200k rsu+ 40k sign on- 284k year 1 and 234k year 2. I genuinel
- Does SDM at Apple (or other FAANG) need to pass hard Dev Interview? Similarly do directors need to? I have 15 years of development and management experience, but have been hands off of code, except code reviews and occasionally crunch time work for about 2 years now. I have extensive Javascript experience, a strong background in Java and some decent Python work. I'
- Executive Looking for Fit at Stripe - Insight? I’m a executive who has spent 23 years working in payments, fraud and risk management for large companies and mid-size FinTechs. I’ve traditionally played the role of CIO, Chief Product guy, CTO or Operations leader, with a heavy focus on payments and fraud. I’m looking for my next opportunity and
- What's it like to work as SWE at Lululemon? (Seattle) I'm an upcoming new grad trying to decide if I want to work at Lululemon as a software engineer in Seattle. I couldn't find many reviews of the software/tech side of Lululemon and was hoping to find some insight from Blind. You don't have to be from the Seattle office specifically, but if you are it
- vote Evaluating Chime vs Current Offers Have offers from Chime / Current with similar TC ($200k base, $100k equity) and deciding between the two. Below are my thoughts for each. Would love to get people's thoughts Chime Pros 1) Challenger Bank Industry Leader and $1.9bn in funding raised 2) SF Location (currently based here) 3) Potentia
- link Referrals wanted -- hypergrowth startups/pre-ipo unicorns! YoE: 10 (2 in leadership) EDIT: Wow, what a showing! I wrote a follow up thread for this if you're curious about what happened with my search: https://www.teamblind.com/post/oXQhcVqb Thanks again for all your help folks! Hi all, It's that time of the year and I'm beginning to ramp up my intervi
- vote Lawyers: Should I go back to a law firm? I’ve been pretty miserable at my current company. I manage a team that is constantly disrespected, pulled in a million directions and I feel like I’m on the verge of losing my sanity. We’ve also already gone back to the office and I feel like I’m scared for my life every single day. I’ve taken thous
- Negotiating with IBM offer Hi everyone, I have been working at IBM NYC office as a Co/Op Software Developer intern since September 2019 and recently got an offer to join as a Full-Time software developer. Before interning at IBM, I have worked as an intern at a finTech firm as a web developer for a year and also worked at
- Product Marketing Move I’m currently looking to make a move into product marketing. I’ve been at a small edge & endpoint AI/ML company for almost a year. While I joined to grow and manage the channel, we’ve all essentially been assigned the roles of account executive, project managers, and whatever else dependent on the d
- Burnout - Sabbatical or MBA Hi all, I've been experiencing burnout and demotivation for 1y+ now. I'm considering taking a break (at least 6 months) or applying to mba. 1. A bit worried I'll be even more stressed from looking for a job while being jobless / negotiation power will be impacted in the process. 2. Currently so
- Underpaid Startup Early Employee Career Advice Bear with me, long rant: I have been working for a series-A fintech startup in San Francisco for 3y after graduation as a software engineer. Current compensation is 95k salary. I was the 10th employee to join this company, and now we have 30 people in total. Last year, I was promised a raise for t
- Rent/Moving to NYC Accepted an offer at a fintech startup with $120k base and 80k bonus if I hit goal, uncapped beyond that based on performance. Also have a solid options package but obviously not money in my pocket today. It’s not direct sales and goals are very achievable as far I can tell. Living in Boston curren
- vote NG offer choice (UK/US/Dublin/TW/SG) (Google/AWS/Bloomberg/Tiktok/Circle/TTD) Hi all, I'm a new grad in Taiwan. These are some SWE offers I'm considering. Any feedback or thought is well appreciated! My priorities will be: 1. Career growth, future opportunities 2. Tech fields that I'm interested in, backend and distributed systems 3. Maximize technical knowledge 4. Compensat
- Name & Shame: LoanStreet (NY) cheated me out of equity I worked for LoanStreet in NYC. Small company. <30 people. Before I was hired, they told me my equity would start vesting after 12 months. After I started, they told me that they actually meant 12 months after the next quarterly board meeting, and I would only start to vest after 16 months. I ask
- Product Manager - laid-off and looking for referrals TL;DR: Got laid off in 6 months because CEO decided he doesn't want to build new products anymore. Looking for referrals for product roles (Austin/remote). --- I joined a small B2B SaaS company in Austin 6 months back as a sr product manager to help build new B2C products. I worked with the CXOs to
- Is it better to be an expert at one thing? Or know 2-3 things really well? Bit about myself: ML Engineer. Full Stack. Ex-Founder. YC Finalist W20. Started out as an ML engineer @ Capital One building credit risk models. Then did full stack at a UK fintech startup. Then did contracting for a bit. Used that money to fund my own startup, an AI journal app (10K+ users). Then
- vote SWE at Hedge Fund vs FinTech Startup - New Grad looking for advice Hey Blind community, I am current CS masters student at top school in London and have received offers from two companies a hedge fund (no not 2S, Citadel or JS) but still has about 60b AUM but is generally quite small ~300 employees globally and HQ in London and a FinTech startup which is currently
- link Startup or FAANG? I am an Engineering Manager (EM) at a big, but traditional, company in Brazil, currently managing a team of 8 developers, and I am now at the initial stages of interviewing at Booking (Amsterdam), Google (San Francisco) and Twitter (No info yet). Also, I met a CTO, who was previously an Sr EM at a
- vote Deciding among a few offers/opportunities Currently a Senior Director of Technology in a traditional Fortune 100 company. TC 350K (230K base + 30% Bonus + 50K RSU/Option). Based in Arkansas, and have been exploring options for my next career move. So far the situation is a bit tricky: Offers: A: PE-backed Fintech (350 employee) - VP of En
- Moving on from a start-up In short, I've struggled to find relevant advice about this type of situation online and hope the conversations resulting from this can help others in my shoes in the future. Briefly, the company I'm referring to is a unicorn fintech company. I was the first hire for the data org at a start-up, at
- I think I’m gonna get fired Working for a fintech company as a product manager. Two months in the job. I was tasked to create a new product, that is in existent for years in other competitions. These competitions all have 100% similar components, 80% user conversion journey, 100% similar conversion form. Since it’s a mature p
- CitiGroup Verbal offer Today I received a verbal offer from CitiGroup(or so was I told) for a SVP role. But I have so many suspicions. 1. I didnot get it from anyone in Citi, I got it from the headhunter who was facilitating the conversations/interviews between me and Citi. (Everyone I met are really at Citi, I connected
- London - Java Microservices Development Strategist Java Microservices Development Strategist – Investment Management, City of London Up to £100k base +50% bonus (so potential TC up to £150k) Are you a delivery-focused tech fanatic with excellent Core Java development skills? Would you like to step into a Senior Thought Leadership role and help set
- vote HFT vs. Series A Startup Offer I currently work as a SWE at a high-frequency trading firm, and I'm considering an offer from a Series A fintech startup in NYC. Most people at my current place stick around for 3+ years, workplace is very chill, foosball table, arcade room, (i.e., not finance-y) and the pay is pretty good, althoug
- vote Google v/s Meta v/s Microsoft v/s Robinhood v/s Uber v/s Capital One Hi Folks, Would be great if you can share your thoughts about the Company and Location to Finalise. New York and SF are Very Heavy on CoL, Let me know your thoughts on aspects of Future Growth, Promotions, and the Ability to Take E2E Ownership. (1) Google (L4), US Base Salary: $155,000 Signing
- Enough Doom & Gloom Tech bros, learn basic economics Here's how this works in a downturn in a business cycle: - base pay WILL NOT go down (wages tend to be sticky) - bonuses WILL go down but not necessarily too significantly (depends on your business) - RSUs WILL go down in value, and might see a reduction in refreshers - hiring will slow down. depen
- Mapping startup experience to FAANG levels I have 16 YOE, been through 2 FinTech startups, negotiated some equity, contributed a lot to scaling those companies and had 2 successful exits. At startup #1 I was the CTO and lead developer, hired and ran a team of 10, and dealt with quite a bit on the business side. At startup #2 I was an early
- Recall the time when I used to make $20/day (road to 250 tc) TL;DR VERSION: Respect people, everyone is fighting a different battle, I hope you will come out on top. Here is my whole career progression. I started from the absolute bottom where my parents and I used to get dead threats and robbed and how I pulled my self out of it. Now I’m the bread winner of
- link Senior Software Engineer Interview Review @ Crypto.com Technical Round 1 - Spoken with some person in Shenzhen Technical Round 2 - Spoken with some person in Shenzhen. A small technical exercise on learning an eccentric programming language on the fly and then creating a small program for gui visualisation. Very interesting type of evaluation. Both ver
- link I made it!! From 85k to 350k TC in less than 2 years EDIT1: looks like this post blew up!! Thanks everyone!! I promise I will reply to all of the DMs/comments later tonight! EDIT2: I replied to all of the DMs, but won't be able to reply to any more DMs/comments. It's too much for me to keep up! However, as I mentioned in most of my replies, I am givi
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?