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Google Acquisitions
- Google acquisitions Question for Google employees that joined the company through acquisition, did you get RSUs as part of your package?
- link Lyft Acquisition by Google? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-14/alphabet-is-said-to-consider-lyft-investment-of-about-1-billion I wouldn't mind Lyft being apart of Google or Apple.
- Google’ next acquisition target? Anyone have a guess? Will they acquire another software company or will they buy a chip design company? Does Nutanix make sense as a target? I don’t remember Google buying such a large cap company($~10bn)
- Acquisition interview for Google Say a company L is getting acquired and I'm in the middle of interviewing. I hear I need to reinterview again once acquired? Is it easier/harder/different? Is there a financial upside?
- Google acquisition of Mandiant/New RSUs? Mandiant is being acquired by Google for all cash. Existing mandiant stock that anyone holds will be converted to cash as well at a specific price. RSUs will be converted to cash at the existing vesting time lines as well. All Mandiant employees will sign new contracts with Google when the acquisit
- What's up with Google Fitbit Acquisition Hello, Just curious about Fitbit Google acquisition. Is it still happening?
- Fitbit buy after google acquisition ? Is it still good time to invest in fitbit ?
- Google Acquisition - Pay Increase or Decrease when google acquires a company, do the employees from the acquired get leveled based on google’s payband or keep the existing TC? @looker @nest
- Google internal transfer after acquisition (from Fitbit) Currently non-tech role, started about a year ago, before the acquisition was announced. A few months into my role I realized I really don't like what I do, and I've recently started applying and exploring other opportunities. I'd love to work at Google and wait for the acquisition to close, and I
- Fitbit Compensation Breakdown and Unvested Equity Considerations Pending Google Acquisition TC: 210K YOE: 12 Non-Tech I’m currently interviewing for a Director level non-tech role at Fitbit. Thus far the recruiter and I have not discussed compensation expectations and I don’t want to be the first party to bring it up. I have questions about Target Bonus and timing, RSUs and Unvested Equi
- Will google acquisition of fitbit go through? any such controversial acquitions by google previously? I bought fitbit shares at 7.15 each. sitting on loss now.
- Any Google acquisitions in Seattle that still exist/have offices here? Thinking about moving to the G but don't want to work in the Fremont or Kirkland office...
- Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion - How do the employees feel about the news? https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20943318/google-fitbit-acquisition-fitness-tracker-announcement
- Mandiant Acquisition. Thoughts? Curious what people think about the 5.4bill acquisition. Is it really going to help Google? #Google #Microsoft #cybersecurity #mandiant
- vote Who is most likely to acquire DoorDash? If you read a headline “doordash being acquired” which company would you assume was the buyer #Doordash #uber #square #google #amazon #tech #acquisition
- vote FAANGM of hedge funds/prop shops/HFT’s This list is loosely based on desirability, TC, WLB, headcount, and interview difficulty: Facebook (Meta) = Jump Trading Amazon = Citadel & Citadel Securities Apple = Two Sigma Netflix = Hudson River Trading Google = Jane Street Microsoft = DE Shaw Some exceptional startup that makes all of its e
- vote Will MSFT buy Zoom? I am an unofficial predictor of industry M&A and I think yes, you? In reference to - https://www.businessinsider.com/cloud-companies-takeover-targets-acquisitions-this-year-google-microsoft-amazon-2022-1 Blind Tax - 265 CAD #tech #acquisitionscience #m&as
- What if one of the FAANG would acquire Blind? #acquire #msft #acquisition #google #facebook #amazon #apple #privacy
- vote VMware Director to Google ??? I’m a Director of PM at VMware and thinking about interviewing to find my market rate. Golden handcuffs from an acquisition are off and VMware RSUs aren’t tier 1. What level should I be targeting at Google for a PM role? I’m managing a team of 6 quite senior PMs. TC: 430
- link First Uber, now Lyft layoffs https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/29/lyft-layoffs-coronavirus/ Maybe time for Google to swoop in for an acquisition #layoff #google
- Looker acquired by Google. How is the leveling done? Does the salary increase/remain same? Looker was recently acquired by google. Anyone who has gone through acquisition process, can you shed some light on the leveling process, what impact the acquisition has on the job title and salary?
- link Google aqcuires fitibit. ok? replace google with facebook. how would the media have reacted? https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/14/22188428/google-fitbit-acquisition-completed-approved
- Why is Google so bad at new products? Why does almost every new Google product fails, either gets cancelled or lose to competitors? Other than the OG search engine and products from before 2010 like gmail and gmap, the most successful products in google are all from acquisitions(YouTube, Android). Have google lost the ability to make cu
- link Google buys HTC! https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/9/20/16340108/google-htc-smartphone-team-acquisition-announced Thoughts?
- link Congrats to Looker https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/06/google-buys-cloud-company-looker-for-2point6-billion.html Good luck with the acquisition. Should be fun.
- Fitbit I have fitbit shares. Will they get converted into Google shares after the acquisition? What will happen to my shares?
- vote Trump social media platform… Is it a buy?? Nasdaq DWAC Do I buy Digital World Acquisition Corp which owns the new Trump social media platform? Is it the next Facebook or Google+? #Stock #Trump #DWAC
- Nutanix how is it doing? Any truth to acquisition rumors Just checking with nutanix folks in blind, how is the company doing? Culture /mood after departure of founder, and any truth to google acquisition rumors?
- How is post acquisition Fitbit? Seeing a lot of new job postings now that the acquisition closed. Is it a good place to work? How has the google integration been?
- Facebook doesn’t have in it what it takes to build great products Worked at Apple and Google before. I don’t think Facebook has what it takes to build great products. Everyone is cutting corners to score points in PSC. Facebook has not built a thing except the social network. Any major product has been an acquisition. Rest is all improvements. I don’t think FB h
- Which company will be next to be acquired? After seeing slack’s success today, which public company is next in line for acquisition? I think Dropbox or Box? I would love if Roku gets acquired by google 😆
- Message from GoogleX I got an email from a Google X talent acquisition contractor via Talentful. This is for an EDA position at X for an early stage EDA project. I replied to him requesting for a call, but haven’t received a response. The original mail looked authentic. Can someone suggest if this is a genuine talent a
- Zalando interview Got an invite for a 15 minutes round with Talent acquisition lead after completing all interviews. Is it positive or negative? Do they give negative feedback on google meet? #Zalando Yoe : 9 years Tc 65
- Kudos to Nest You folks at Nest are just crushing it with awesome product after product. And kudos (by extension) to the guys at Google (Finance) for such an awesome acquisition. /end
- Selling my startup I’m a senior software engineer at Google and I founded my tech startup 2 years ago. I’m alone with no employees. I developed the product with no marketing involved and only on 1 platform. The first year I did $200k in sales and the second year more than $500k. The estimation for 2022 is about $75
- What are they notorious for? Google is notorious for downleveling hiring and steep promotion path Amazon is notorious for toxic pip culture Meta is notorious for awful metaverse plan Microsoft is notorious for killing Nokia and bunch of terrible acquisitions Netflix is notorious for not giving RSU What about others?
- Should Twitter be acquired by Google With Twitter being close to 35B in market cap, I feel it’s an excellent price for Google to acquire it. This could be a way for Google to get into social. If not Google, it can still be a good bet for MSFT or other big companies. I feel Twitter has a Solid product and a great user base. The only th
- Is Fitbit interview same as Google’s now? Recruiter contacted me about a fitbit role. Now that Google’s acquisition of fitbit is complete, have they adopted google interview structure? Also, since I am being considered for a specific team, will my interviewers be from that org, or will it be the typical grab bag of google interviewers? T
- vote Microsoft Acquires Nuance As regulators seek to dismantle FB, Apple, Amazon, & Google 🔎 Meanwhile in Microsoft land... 🤑😂👏😉 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/12/microsoft-hunts-for-big-acquisitions-as-antitrust-spotlight-on-rivals.html Will Microsoft inherit the earth 🌎?
- Hiring process at Looker Now that the acquisition is complete, is it the same hiring process with a team match at the end? Can you go through both at once if it isnt? are the offices being consolidated? #looker #google
- Google Reston office I am a Mandiant employee in East coast and hopefully I will be part of Google once acquisition is completed. Probably I will be working from Reston office. As Google prefers employees to work 3 days a week, I am considering Reston office as it's nearest office for me.. The commute will be still hig
- vote Googlers through acquisition? The general word on the street is that google is a tough company to get into. So the assumption is that only the smartest engineers with ability to solve unseen leetcode problems get in. But what about acquisitions? The company being acquired may have had low hiring standards. The engineers may not
- Why doesn't Facebook diversify? Why is Zuck so brain stuck on the social media? It currently hit a thredshold on user acquisition and is no longer able to grow its user base. It's basically stagnant and a value stock. With its employees among the top brains globally. It can go into other sectors (outside of social + VR) and WIN S
- link Looking for Google and Meta supply chain referrals, 7+ YOE in multidisciplinary procurement! Hi Blind team, Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have Sourcing and Category management expertise.#supplychain https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/85770259459384006-category-manager-procurement-mergers-and-acquisitions/?company=Google&company=Google%20Fiber&company=YouTube&employment_
- link What sites are best doing research on startups and their leadership team? Says it all in the title. This post caught my eye "How to spot a startup winner 📈" https://www.teamblind.com/post/rLaHm6Gv Im trying to do some research but Im having a hard time finding the success of leadership members track record on if their past companies got acquired. Right now its Linked
- Yelp me Received an offer from Yelp. Want to get peoples thoughts on the company and if it’s worth leaving amazon. I’ve read into them and obviously had a failed acquisition with google in the past but could there be other things on the horizon. Non swe tech role Offer £150k TC £100k YOE 2.5
- Does Google Cloud have a strategy to move into Enterprise Software? I realize Google does not likely want to move into the ERP space, but after it gets enough market share in Cloud Storage (which by the way is still years away), the next move is Enterprise Software, likely in collaboration tool acquisitions, not doing the homegrown route. Thoughts?
- how does Google’s culture differ from Amazon? I came into Amazon from an acquisition and haven’t been impressed with the broader Amazon culture. It seems like employees aren’t really valued as actual people and the work/life balance isn’t great. Now I’m looking at a role at Google and wondering: In what ways is the culture similar/different? Th
- What is Uber TAAP? It's listed as the division under a bunch of their job postings. TAAP Core, TAAP Mobility. All I could get out of Google is it stands for "Talent Acquisition Academy Program." Do teams in this org have the same growth/opportunities as others at Uber? Specifically for SWE's. #uber #swe #ubertaap
- About to join Meta as TPM. Negotiating TC for IC6 20YoE Hey Future Metamates, what do you recommend? Knowing latest earnings, latest all hands, Kustomer acquisition, and new privacy punch by Google what’s the bottom TC I should not go below? Here is what I was thinking: $250k base $500k RSU 5 years $50k sign Remote Thoughts? Should I go lower on base