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- $UPST employees how do you feel about your TC affected due to stock decline? The stock is now at $82 all the way from $400. Is the company giving your more stocks to bridge the gaps in TC due to stock fall? I am holding $UPST stock and currently down 35% planning to cut losses and move on. TC: 450K
- Who is buying at all time highs in bay area when the stock market is softening up? Hey folks, Market prices are determined by 1) supply/demand gap, and 2) paying power of the buyers. I get that supply/demand gap will remain in bay area for the foreseeable future, but I don't understand why reduction in net worth (due to current and anticipated slowdown of growth stocks (as money
- vote Help evaluate my offers from Meta vs Amazon Got two SDE2 offers recently, hard to make a decision. AWS SDE2, 220k base,146 shares, 2 years sign on 1st year: 220k base + 200k sign on + 5%RSU = ~ 450k 2nd year: 220k base + 160k sign on + 15% RSU =~ 450k 3rd and 4th: 220k base+ 40% RSU =~ 390k Meta 184k base, 450k RSU, 1 year sign on 75k, recr
- New Joiners of Google, Facebook & Amazon Are your RSUs based on current stock prices? If yes , then joiners at similar roles 4 years ago are earning 4-5 times your RSU value. How do you plan to bridge that gap? Any idea anyone else?
- Proxy Vote: Board recommend against report for gender pay gap If you own Microsoft stock, It seems Microsoft doesn’t want to be transparent on gender pay gap, if you own Microsoft stock, please vote.
- Did MICROSOFT fix its compensation issues? Saw a ton of activity on blind regarding special stock awards to close the gap to engineers. Did msft fix the gap when it comes to offers? Hiring managers, are you seeing better offers now than a few months ago?
- Break I’m planning to quit my job and take a break from work for a few months to have some sanity. Will probably come back recharged and find a new job. Is it really bad to have a gap in the resume? L4, 160K without stocks #depression #mentalhealth #break
- Anyone transferred to USA from UK via Facebook Was you total pay way less than the USA employees? Also did stock refreshers helped you overcoming the gap? Tc 43 lac INR
- vote FB vs TikTok vs Google Recently interviewed all three companies. FB E4 offer: Base: 170k Sign on: 50k Bonus: 10% RSU: 330k Average yearly TC: ~270k Has stock refresh, stable, significant gap in terms of TC TikTok 2-2 offer: Base: 210k Bonus: 25% RSU: 400k - 580k @$195 per share Average yearly TC: ~420k Nice team, No sto
- vote Remitly/Gusto/Flexport offer #startup #gusto #flexport #remitly Not final numbers but not caring that much on small gaps, asking for 3-5yrs growth potential more from business/stock perspective. All packages are around 500k on 4yrs average Remitly stock has a bounce potential Gusto valued at hot market, seems have the best
- Is Wayfair a sinking ship now? We all know what happened today. Wayfair stock slipped to 80s from 120 in few days gap. How are they going to handle recession period and are they ever going to be a profitable company?🤔
- facebook transfer from ic5 to e5 if transfer went successful, does compensation change immediately ( more RSU?) to match the levels? if yes, what is the typical grant of RSUs to match the gap?
- Amazon RSU’ - What happens post you sell it ? Edits: As some commented Q wasn’t clear. Dear All I need your help and advice. I am new to Amazon and trying to understand what happens if I sell all my RSUs (eg 5 RSU ) after they have been credited to my account. Amazon says RSU are part of the CTC, hence if I sell my RSU’ ,will Amazon give me
- Staff Eng offers coming in very low L5@Google TC:490K (post-cliff) Both companies interested but both initial offers in hand do not reflect a hot job market. Twitter (Staff IC = L5.75+ Google) Base 245K Stock 700K (6mo cliff, quarterly vest) Bonus: 25% Signon 30K =TC: 450K (upper end of my level but lower than what I make) —————— Ro
- vote OCI vs Azure offer Hey blinders! I recently received offers from OCI IC3 and Microsoft L60. OCI Base - 150k Stocks - 300k Sign on - 30k Microsoft Base - 125k Stocks - 100k Sign on - 35k I am currently working at AWS for 1 year. I am mostly looking for WLB but don't want to miss out on such pay gap. Would love to h
- vote 500k in bay area vs 250k in MCOL What would you prefer? In MCOL you could buy a big house. Bay Area taxes are higher. Bay Area the compensation seems to be more that can grow with stock appreciation. There is a big pay gap between the two but which one would you prefer? #tech
- vote What’s your opinion on buy and hold index funds? Buy and hold broad market index funds to achieve 7-10% return in the long run. Is this the way? Or take concentrated risk on a few high conviction stocks? I don’t see how one can close wealth gap without taking more risk early on. #personalfinance #investments
- TPM vs SDE Comp Anyone have comp figures for - Technical Product Manager - Technical Program Manager - SDE For FAANG/tech in London? US comparisons are welcome too. Mainly trying to see how much of a gap there is between ther paths especially in base and stock.
- Which offer would you select ? Facebook - e5 - 411 tc (205k base, 15% bonus, $700k stocks)+ 100k sign on Pinterest - L5 - 480 tc (205k base, $1.1m stocks) + 75k sign on Not creating poll. i need some logical advice. I am bit skeptical that Pins stock might fall in long run and also with recession coming, it would be volatile.
- Meta Lead Counsel (IC Currently a CW (legal secondee) at Meta in MPK/SF area. Looking to convert to FTE but hoping to minimize pay cut coming from market big law. It can be a combination of base + RSU. I noticed there’s not much compensation discussion here for legal departments but hoping to get insights. Current Law
- Google offer (non tech) Just received an offer for L5 non tech. total comp about 270K in bay area. 170K base + 300K/4 stock. Any recommendations? anything else I could do to raise the offer?#offer #google current TC 228K in Seattle, feels definitely a gap. yoe 6, strategy and operations
- RSUs - stock price spike after accepting offer but before starting I recently accepted an offer with a RSU package that has # of shares determined based on the price after starting. I put in my notice but have not started yet. Since then, the stock price at my future employer has skyrocketed by 50%. Is it bad form to ask for an adjustment to close the gap between s
- Short tenure, leave on resume or hide? I have only been at snap for a few months, Will a 3-8 months gap looks worse/ harder to explain than leaving after 3-8 months? Context: joined at ATH, stock down 40% => prepare to lc & interview next month just in case tc:450k yoe 6
- RSU vest date falls on Sunday, which is also the last working day Start date at a new company: Monday, Jan 17th 2022 RSU Vest date: Sunday, Jan 16th 2022 Planning to set last working day as Sunday, Jan 16th 2022 Will this impact the RSU vesting. YOE: ~9 years TC: ~350K Edit: *Removed* On H1B visa, can't have break in employment days <-- There can be a gap
- link Geekwire - Seattle tech workers earn $279K/year on average, more than double the wages in every other sector Closing the gap on the Bay Area with still lower cost of living. Plus $279k as an average is incredible. Also, this has to be TC helped by rise of Amazon, Microsoft stock recently. https://www.geekwire.com/2020/seattle-tech-workers-earn-279k-year-average-double-wages-every-sector/
- link Google rejects Diversity compensation https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shareholders-reject-bid-google-diversity-215520992.html MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Shareholders of Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Wednesday rejected several proposals aimed at linking executive pay to diversity goals, being more open about lobbying, narrowing the gen
- Should I take 30% pay cut for google? I received an offer from google shortly after I joined my current company (not Amazon). Money side, my current TC is 450K and google offered 300K. They told me there is room for negotiation but the gap is still likely to be more than 100K. Considering half of my current TC is bonus to be paid in ca
- New College Grad: Apple vs. Nvidia Graduating with my masters in December and I have two offers, one from apple and one from nvidia. Help me evaluate and pick between them Apple: IC2? 130k base, 110k stocks, 40k signon GPU Design Implementation Role Hourly, with the ability to work overtime Nvidia: IC3? 145k bass, 104k stocks, 15
- vote [India] What’s better in long term - Hopping vs working within I had a total of 12 yoe and would be joining Salesforce soon. Had been for 6 years at current company. My target is to make more money and move towards faang level. So question is should i stay more with in a company or keep jumping ships? If jumping how much gap is good enough. Current TC - 35(ba
- Compass senior PM offer eval Have an offer for compass senior PM IC3. 162 base 190 stock over 4 years Bonus (not sure how this works, what's the target stock refresher percent?) Total = around 210 without bonus (not sure how stock refresher works) No sign-on Definitely a little bit low...How much leeway can I get on the base/
- vote Stay at FB or Pinterest L6 I have been in FB working on commerce products for some years, very close to E6 promo. got a Pinterest L6 offer with $630 TC, FB could potentially give additional equity to fill the TC gap(still waiting), if so, which one should I choose? 7 YOE Pinterest pros: - better WLB and culture - TL mult
- Variable rate HELOC for downpayment vs Fixed rate HELOC Planning to go 10% down on a jumbo loan for a 1.8M house with 80-10-10 option. While we have enough assets to do 20% down (360k cash + 150k stocks), we don't want to be caught with pants down in case of an Appraisal gap. So we opted in for a 10% HELOC. Mortgage broker is recommending a variable rat
- vote Mandatory stock grants for public company employees What do you all think of mandatory recurring stock grants *in addition to* a livable wage for all employees of publicly traded companies? I'm mostly talking about Amazon warehouse workers, McDonald's burger flippers, Tesla factory workers, UPS drivers, etc. This way, as the wealth of the company r
- 3 year RSU schedule for Mortgage My lender told me they need the RSU grant schedule for the next 3 years. Amazon only provides the schedule for the next 2 years (except for new employees) and the grants for 2024 will likely be declared by April. That’s going to be too late for me unfortunately. Has anyone here had this issue with t
- Microsoft offer Offer: Base 145K Sign-on 10K (20K for 2 years) RSU 15K (60K for 4 years) Bonus 10% Total : 187K Level: L62 Current position: TC: 215K (Base + Year end Bonus) Position: Tech Lead Seeing the gap between my current TC and the offer, is it even worth negotiating? I was expecting L63 level.
- Data Analysts vs SDE - Compensation Disparity I’m seeing a big big gap between Data Analyst vs SDE salaries. Most of which is justified with the unique skillset SDEs bring and the nature of work being more technical. Pretty much all the SDEs I see on blind are bagging over 300K annually with 5-6 years of experience. I try to quote my expected
- Is it possible to get Bay Area mortgage with offer letter? During Covid I took some time off work for mental health, and I am thinking it will be time to return soon. The problem is that we moved to another state during covid so I need housing in the Bay Area. I’m not willing to rent after experiencing owning my own home. About me - early 30s - 600k after
- Everyone coming at higher or mid 300s at L5 to Amazon, my 2 cents You are coming in at the top of band or peak, the only ways you can make more money is: - Get to L6 - Get TT YoY to get to peak and onetime RSUs followed by L6 in a few years - Stock grows more than the expected value If the above 3 don't happen, these are the possibilities: - You are a HV2 and wil
- Tesla HW offer evaluation Staff EE offer @Tesla 190k base 550k RSU (4 yr) No sign on, no annual bonus. RSU refresh 25%~50% of base Current TC ~380K, YOE 7 The numbers seems to be decent compared to other posted data, but still has a gap to my current tc in FANG I like the vision of Tesla, seems to offer more growth for
- vote Which vesting mode do you prefer for your next offer? Google and Uber have started offering front loaded vesting where roughly 2/3rds of the initial grant vests in the first two years. The intent is refreshers will bridge the gap for years 3 and 4. Given the shorter tenures and the bull market I think this is mostly good for employees but companies ca
- Oracle vs VMware Hey guys, I got offer from Oracle and VMware India Oracle TC - 12.5 I guess I will be part of cloud team VMware TC - 20 + some stocks Automation QA I need suggestions on which one to choose. Since there is a huge gap in TC do you think I can negotiate with Oracle? Also, which one has good career
- Glassdoor offer and IPO A friend got an offer here for a Senior position in the Bay. We're in Seattle. Their offer is pretty low comparing to the others in my opinion. Senior engineer position: 125k + 20k sign on + 8000 stock option. He hasn't negotiated and has 3 years exp. The stock he has to vest and buy it later. They
- Remote work comp coefficients at Google Does Google apply the remote work comp coefficients (eg. I've heard of 0.85 for CO/NV) only to cash pay (base + bonus) like Meta/FB does, or do they apply it to RSUs/stock grants as well? Meta doesn't apply it to RSUs because if they did it would create a huge gap between people hired as remote and
- link eBay Technical Product Manager offer eval {Asking for a friend} Got a new grad offer from eBay and just wanted to see where i’d have room to negotiate. Current TC = 0. Offer is as follows: Base: $112k RSU: $35k over 4 years Target Bonus : 10% Location: San Jose Currently a senior student in undergrad but wanted to see I have any room to ne
- Menlo Park or Austin, Texas I have a Facebook Data Science IC5 verbal offer. They are open to any location in USA. I am contemplating Austin, Texas or Menlo Park. Recruiter didn’t share the exact numbers yet, but informed me that there will be 15-20% gap in base + bonus in 2 locations. Stock component will be same regardless.
- vote Evaluate my linkedin and amzn offer Amzn L5 Base : 218K Year 1 Bonus : 140k Year 2 Bonus : 110K RSU : 95 units in 4 years 5/15/20/20/20/20 Avg TC : 370K Location : Nyc Linkedin Senior SWE Base : 195K Annual bonus : 10% Rsu : 375K/4 years Sign on : 48K Year 1 TC : 356K Year 2 onwards : 308 K Location: Sunnyvale This is amazon’s initi
- How far can a Facebook M1 offer go given a strong competitive offer? Here's the story: I got 2 offers from Roblox and Zoom and expecting an M1 offer from Facebook next week. At Roblox, I was lucky to get a senior manager offer (equivalent to M2 at FB): Base: $300K RSU: $2M over 4 years Signon: $100K Zoom's offer is negligible, so I won't bother to post it here.
- Retirement planning Hello Peeps, I’m a new grad PhD student in AI/ML actively applying for Applied and Research roles. I have been only groomed to study and get a decent job from my childhood. As a result, I have no serious expertise in planning a retirement or on how stock, RSU’s stuff works at the company. Can you
- vote Google Analyst or TikTok Data Scientist? Background 1. Both are analytics work: Google is in the Sales Analytics space, TikTok is in Trust and Safety. 2. TikTok pays +45% better vs Google. Google will not meet or narrow the TC gap. 3. Google seems to have better non-compensation benefits such as culture, health benefits, free food, gym, et
- Is there still a way to save cash from inflation? Was saving for down payment of a house in LCOL + some for appraisal gap. Couldn’t convince myself on any house and instead found a job in bay area and moved. Now I have 200k+ cash. Can’t afford a house here in bay area but don’t know to save the cash from inflation either. Have increased recurring