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Fintech Unicorns
- vote [New grad] Fintech Unicorn vs. Facebook Facebook: (-) Base: $118,000 (+) Yearly bonus: $11,800 (+) Sign-on bonus: $70,000 (+) RSU: $150,000 (+) Cheaper COL area (Seattle) (+) Catered breakfast, lunch, and dinner (+) Looks better on a resume (+) Safer company during an upcoming recession (-) Less interesting product (-) Slower growth than
- vote Infra vs Backend at Fintech Unicorn Hi, I have been offered both roles as a new grad with same pay and was wondering which would be better for my career prospects in the long term. I am comfortable with both tech stacks so that would not be a factor. TC: 350k yoe: 0
- Perfios salary expectation( Fintech unicorn) Dear Blinders, Can anyone suggest how much can I expect from perfios for 4.3YOE. current tc: 16 Offer from PayPal : Fixed 25, TC: 32 #tech #software #sde
- vote Fintech Unicorn Startup internship take it or not? Internship in Toronto as a SWE , I'm just worried with how the WLB is going to be as it seems like Glassdoor is saying it's not the best. Is this worth taking or do I just go back to university and finish off my third year ? I would then do an internship in summer 2022 and fall 2022. Any advice wou
- link 2 Senior Data Analyst Positions at Avant - a fast growing Fintech Unicorn We are looking for 2 Senior Data Analysts for the Marketing team. For more details check this link and apply - https://jobs.lever.co/avant/81974e74-054f-4634-9c5f-6d35ad8c7339 #hiring #jobopening #recruiting
- What pre-IPO Fintech unicorns in SF/NY to join as SWE? People who work at pre-IPO Fintech unicorns in SF/NY as SWE. Do you recommend your company? TC: 240K YOE: 5
- What’s stopping healthtech from picking up like fintech? Genuinely curious. It seems like fintech gets all the headlines. what are some cool Heath tech unicorns? Will we see a healthtech wave like fintech is currently going through?
- Renege unicorn internship offer for FANG I accepted an internship offer for a unicorn last week, and I just received an offer from FANG. The startup is fintech and I prefer the name recognition and problems over at FANG than fintech unicorn. I accepted the unicorn offer with 2 weeks left until the offer expires. If I didn't accept the uni
- Operations Positions at Startups? background as Global Operations Director for Unicorn startup…my fav role and would like to continue that YOE: 5yrs looking for Director Ops roles, if it’s ops manager tc has to be 100k+ proptech or fintech is ideal but very open #operations #ops #startups #vc #unicorn
- Unicorn or FAANG Referral: Business ops Looking for referral for faang, unicorn , or startup. Looking for Director of operations or Senior program manager similar roles. Background: global hospitality/ cowork unicorn and real estate YOE: 5 #hire #startup #fintech #proptech #varomoney #blend #acrons #robinhood #zillow #zumper #realmsco
- link Unicorn company is hiring Tipalti, the fintech unicorn company is booming The open positions: https://jobs.lever.co/tipalti?lever-via=cj3pEf_AsB Talk to me if you need and I will try to help... #referral #jobs #jobhunt #jobopening
- link Better.com Anyone have any experiences with or thoughts about Better.com? It’s a mortgage fintech startup in NYC nearing unicorn valuation. They’re offering salaries similar to FAANG and expanding very rapidly right now. I haven’t had much luck finding info about Better engineering.
- Looking for New Grad Referrals Finished up my SWE internship at Facebook with a GE (greatly exceeds) rating for full time offer. Looking for new grad referrals at any fintech unicorns, quant, or any cool companies in general. Let me know if you can help out and I'll shoot you a dm, thanks :) #quant #unicorn
- link Fintech 🦄 company is growing and looking for new talents! Hi all, I once used this platform, so now it's my time to give back :) Tipalti, the fintech unicorn company I work in is hiring many positions around the world. They are very fond of friends of friends, and give extra attention to referrals, so if you find something you want, let me know and I'll
- Public trading app vs Robinhood vs Others Couldn't find much information on blind about Public(https://public.com/). How is the company: engineering team, culture, compensation? Do you think it has a chance to become a unicorn startup? #public #fintech
- Bolt Referral Hi Blind Community, my team at Bolt is grow fast and has LOTS of HCs for this year. Especially we have many openings for Mobile Engineers (iOS/Android). Anyone interested feel free to DM me. Cheers TC: 300K #bolt #unicorn #hiring #refer #fintech #e-commerce #tech #startup #fire #mobile #iOS #a
- Why work in Big 4 when startups/fintech pay way more? This is a question for general SWEs. I understand many people may have product specific ambitions, but the TC discrepancy seems to be pretty wide. Coming from Google, I constantly hear how large unicorns such as Instacart and Robinhood or fintech companies pay better for those with less experience.
- Head of data equity for unicorn Anyone have any thoughts/experiences around the kind of equity you’d get for a head of data role at a $1B unicorn (in fintech)? Thinking about leaving FB but want to make sure the offer is fair. Offered 7bp #datascience #equity
- Pay disparity of SWEs in finance Prop trading firms, HFTs, Hedge Funds, Fintech etc. pay SWEs really well, even better than FAANG/Unicorn companies. But SWE pay in investment banks is total crap. Why do banks pay SWEs so little compared to other finance companies?
- vote Is this a competitive start-up Director offer? Got an offer for a series c fintech company in bay area (Unicorn ) 280k base 540k of equity over 4 years This would be a TC of 415k. This role is managers of managers over 30+ person org. This seems very low. L7 at Amazon now and I make 700k. I know L6 sdms that make more then this ( and the eq
- Is this how it’s normally done? Got an offer from a recruiter for a fintech unicorn. Package was given to me as follows: TC = 140k base+equity+10% performance bonus to = 172k Turns out, that equity portion is for all 4 years, not the value of the shares after 1 year vested (minus strike price ofc). Idk. It lowers my first year T
- Higher level at private unicorn or lower level at non FAANG public company? The fintech unicorn (not Stripe) has no immediate plans to go public. TC including paper money is higher as is the job level/responsibilities. Also have offers from 2 public non Faang tier (but still fairly well known and respected) where overall TC is lower but stock is liquid so liquid comp is mor
- vote Which company should I join? Looking for a balanced output of financial upside, good culture/WLB, and working with smart, talented people. Any commentary on the options or suggestions of other places to consider would be great. Thanks! Role: senior product design #stripe #fintech #poll #design #coinbase #brex #square
- Most Interesting Fintech Startups to Join 2022? Fintech has grown a lot in the last few years. A few unicorns emerged and these companies are now in hyper growth mode. What are some companies with an excellent engineering culture and a great market fit that you think people should put on their watch list for 2022?
- Interviews are getting hard Appeared for a technical screen at a Fintech unicorn Got asked a Leetcode Medium and a Hard question in 1 hour. Wrote the code for medium and executed it against all the testcases successfully. Explained and wrote the code for hard as well but there was one bug in the system which I couldn’t fix.
- Need PM referral in London Looking for product manager referrals in FAANG/unicorn startups (preferably FinTech) Specific companies - Meta/Facebook, Google, Amazon, Stripe, Coinbase, Plaid, Revolut, SVB, Monzo, Bolt, Checkout, Booking, and other similar companies Product YoE: 2.5 Years Total YoE: 3.5 Years #referral #faang
- vote NYC Unicorn Offer Evaluation Hey Blinders, I got an offer from a fintech startup in NYC. What do you guys think? details below: Base - 195k Bonus - 10% Stock options - worth ~300k (currentVal - strike) * # of Options Vesting - over 4 years So this puts the TC around 210k cash + 75k options = 285k current comp is about the sa
- L6 AMZN TPM looking for unicorn comp range expectations I'm under paid and searching. Been interviewing with a unicorn and trying to figure out how to approach TC range. They don't seem to be up front about the range and are asking me for a range. Tried to keep it as open as possible so stated 200-250 salary (seemed in line for local unicorns) and they a
- Looking for Lyft NYC referral Hey folks! There’s an engineering position I’m curious about at Lyft in NYC. Anyone up for referring? About me: - Soon-to-be new grad from top 3 CS school - 6 internships (FinTech Unicorn + Amazon + Top 10 Website [2×] + Public Streaming Company + Analytics Startup), happy to chat more about my ex
- Is the Fintech hype real? Many unicorns recently from the Fintech space. Stripe, Plaid, Coinbase, Robinhood, Affirm, etc. It looks like a fast growing space with lots of potential. But that’s just my impression from the outside. I was wondering if folks working at these places could please share their honest impression abou
- vote Amazon, OCI, and a startup offer evaluation I’m L66 at MSFT looking to move. Currently have L6 SDM offer from Amazon, M4 offer from OCI, and Sr. Manager offer from a startup. Amazon TC: 550k OCI TC: 575k Startup: 235k base + 12.5% bonus + equity Is there any room for negotiation at Amazon and OCI? What’s the WLB like at OCI? I used to work
- Referral needed for Product management Hello all! I'm looking for referrals to any FANGMULA+ or startup unicorns for product management roles, preferably in a fintech or payments role considering my background. Open to remote opportunities, relocation to US, otherwise Canada-based. YOE: 6+ years PM (total 15+) TC: 235k C$ Please drop
- vote Which fintech giants have reputations for having strong SWEs? (see title) Prefer comment but if you're lazy there's a poll below that allows multiple selections. If you had nothing to go off of about someone except that they work or worked at <company>, for which companies would that be significant positive signal? I'm trying to gauge which places have a
- Offer Evaluation - Lenskart vs FPL(Onecard) Lenskart - Unicorn+Established Startup | Great Project (Supply Chain From *Scratch*) | Yearly Appraisal | hired as SDE-I TC - 18L(Base) + 2L(for 3 years) FPL(Onecard) - Startup | Am a little intrigued with Fintech | Great Interaction with Co-Founder | 6 Monthly Appraisal | hired as Senior SE
- Tech strategy to private equity Curious if anyone has made the jump from strategy roles in tech to PE. I’m extremely interested in getting out of the bureaucracy of big tech and have always enjoyed getting into the nitty gritty of operating a business. Experience with stratops in manufacturing, FAANG, and a fintech unicorn. Also
- Need PM referral Product YoE: 2.5 Years Total YoE: 3.5 Years TC: 40L Looking for product manager referrals in FAANG/unicorn startups (preferably FinTech) Specific companies - Google Pay, Whatsapp Payments, Stripe, Coinbase, Meta/Facebook, Ramp, Rippling, Gusto, Binance, Grab(Digibank), Brex, SoFi, Earnin, Square,
- Looking for referrals in London I am looking for referrals in London for the pre IPO unicorn or any other top paying companies with good reputation. Also open to fintech startups. Recently working on frontend but also have full stack and system level programming experience in the previous work. Competetive in the FAANG style typi
- Should I spend 6 months as a PM or keep climbing the ranks in payments partnerships? I work in payments partnerships within a big tech company that has a wallet. Within payments partnerships I mostly work on negotiating contracts with fintech partners to enable our wallet. I like it and I am at L6 as an individual contributor. Should I: 1. get a rotation to Product so I can have 6 m
- vote Arcesium ( FinTech) vs FarEye ( Startup) Hi All, My Exp: 3.6 years Previous Compensation: 17.5 L (17 Fixed + 50K Variable) I got two offers Well Know fintech Company Growing startup ( founded in 2013) ( recently raised $100M funding ) Compensation: FinTech ( @Arcesium): Base: 27 LPA Bonus: 2.5 LPA LTA: 3.75LPA ( Every December) Total
- Startups or stay put The current job burned me quite a lot as we are short on people and there is no enough candidates are able to make through the panel. Many old teammates left the companies. The work has its high and low time. 30-100hrs/week depends on project and timeline. I started my interviews during those long
- Looking For Small Company Big Impact VP/CTO I’m currently a director at a fintech unicorn, but have finally nailed down exactly what I am looking for. - Software Company, meaning the product is actual software, not just enablement for some other service. - < 200 total employees - At least 5 years old - VP of Eng or CTO role where I can ha
- Referral for Product manager job in Canada (PR holder) #product Hi Blind Community, I just joined Blind and was awestruck - what an amazingly helpful community, what superb level of information/knowledge on various topics (my interest for now is in job-related ones). I am looking for #productmanager #product referrals. Please help with referrals for F
- Please help with referrals for Software/Full stack/Frontend engineering roles in the Netherlands/ Europe/ Remote. Hello Everyone, I would really appreciate referrals to any FAANGMULA, Unicorns, fintech or to any product based companies in the Netherlands, in Europe or remote. I am currently working as a Full stack software engineer in the Netherlands but I am open to full stack or front-end roles. [> 5 YOE
- iOS new grad career prospects? Received an offer from a unicorn fintech company for their iOS team as a new grad. I'm likely going to take the offer (first year TC: 225, plus I've really liked everybody I've spoken with on the team and I know I can have a really solid impact on the product) but I'm worried that working in iOS wil
- How's the job market for software engineers in Seattle for 1 yoe? I recently got promoted to SDE II at Microsoft and I'm thinking about leaving for greener pastures to maximize for learning and TC. I haven't interviewed since freshman years, so I'm not sure about the job market. Can anyone with similar experience chip in? I'm mostly getting ping'ed by Amazon and
- Senior PM referrals Hey Blind, posted a little while back looking for senior PM referrals. Still haven’t secured anything unfortunately, so if anyone could help with a referral to the companies below I’d really appreciate it. My background: 9 YOE of PM experience in eComm, healthcare, and fintech/insurtech. Previously
- How to succeed working at startups? I joined a unicorn fintech startup few months ago. I almost doubled my TC. But, the amount of work currently I am doing is very less than what I used to do at my previous company. I am getting a feeling of being overpaid. Am I doing something wrong? How should I make sure that I am making a huge imp
- Best High Growth Startups? Hey everyone, Im ready for a change of pace and more ownership over my work so I’m looking to move to a high growth startup. They need to be stable/mature enough that I don’t lose my job and get deported if it doesn’t work out, but other than that I have no hard requirements. What startups seem like
- Need referrals Currently I’m working at unicorn startups in Singapore almost 3 years. Pretty strong in leetcode, Had done 390+ Have good understanding on machine learning platform, data pipeline system, distributed system as well. I’m good knowledge at cloud computing, especially GCP. I built platforms on Google
- vote Credit Karma vs Competing Fintech Offer Hi all, Hoping to get some input on whether I should consider an offer that has recently come on the table. Current Role & Comp: Credit Karma - Marketing Manager II Base: $170k Stock: $600k unvested (bulk of that vesting in the next 2 years) Competing Fintech Offer (Series D - $500M Valuation) Ro