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- Google ventures thoughts? Hello everyone, Any thoughts on google ventures? Culture, wlb, salary, etc..? Thanks!
- Referral to Google Ventures Hi does anyone know anyone at Google Ventures. I heard they're a great corp.
- Compensation at Google Capital and Google Venture Hi, Anyone could share some data points about compensation at CapitalG and Google Venture? I heard there is no stock but bonus and some share from investment return. Thanks!
- vote Trying to decide between Google, CZI, a series B startup and a new venture Hi, I am super happy to have so many options at this point, but now, I need advice. I have Front End SWE offers from CZI (chanzuckerberg.com), a series B startup and a very young startup. About Me: - 10+ YoE. Startup experience > 6 years. Ex-Yahoo, Ex-Infosys. - Long term goal: Start my own comp
- FAANGS with Ventures Arm? Other than Google Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, IBM, and Facebook; Which other BIg tech companies have a Corporate Venture Investment arm? #tech #vc
- link Google acquires Intuit? https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/premerger-notification-program/early-termination-notices/20210028 What does this mean? UPDATE: False Alarm. I read this incorrectly. Google Ventures (Alphabet investment company) is selling its small stake in Credit Karma to Intuit because Intuit acquired Credit Kar
- Why do recruiters from these shit non faang+ companies think I would be interested in joining their company I literally have Google on my LinkedIn bio. Unless they're a faang company or a unicorn or even a promising venture backed startup why would they think in their heads I would work at their shit little company. TC: 300k YOE: 4
- Lost my job today. Need some references. Hi all, With mixed feelings, I lost my shitty job today. I’m ready for my next venture in Data Engineering. Requesting referrals here. #google #apple #facebook #meta #airtable #netflix #dropbox #aws #microsoft #intel #cisco #samsung #square #twitter #stripe #uber #yelp #asana #instacart #postmates
- Referral for Google PMM role? Currently Program Manager @ FB (leading a high vis global program). Formerly venture-backed startup founder. Interested in a Google PMM role. Anyone open to referring?
- GV-funded Series B Looking to apply to a Google Ventures-funded Series B. What are the chances a GV-funded startup will successfully exit? Do they have a better track record than most?
- Most interesting non-tech jobs at tech firms? Just a partial list. Would love to get people's thoughts. Corp dev at Netflix Content at Netflix Strategy at Google X Investments at Google Ventures BD at Facebook live sports Corp dev at Amazon Product at AWS machine learning and AI
- Hiring junior - mid level developers My company is hiring junior-midlevel full stack Engineers (No Visa / 3rd Party , 100% remote within usa) Skill Set : Typescript , React , GCP - pub sub, dataflow , nodejs ,distributed programming and architecture. . DM me. No leetcode type interviews !! Work domain - 3D , VR/AR and computationa
- Google vs Facebook Product Manager Brand Curious if Google or Facebook has a significantly better brand in the market for product managers? Specifically within the context of future opportunities (eg, unicorn startups) or raising venture capital/finding cofounders? Thanks! TC: $210K
- How to prepare for a Google Product interview I’ve been considering applying for a product position at Google. I haven’t started the process yet, so I have plenty of time. Any recommendations on how to prep? Books, courses, tutoring, other? Background: I’ve been in product for 10 years, managed teams and budgets. I’ve also been associated
- Anyone looking to work at start up ! Happy to refer If anyone is looking for job Dm me - Skill set - python, reach , node.js , google cloud exp .. full stack . Also open for Product managers. No visa sponsorship! 100% remote . Company is Series B ( 500M current valuation) startup backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global and Google Ventures. Worki
- Should GOOGL Market cap increase if UBER does? Uber just posted a 55% Q1 growth. Its valuation increased by about 30% to 62 Bn. Since Alphabet (Google Ventures) owns about 6% of Uber’s stock, does that mean that GOOGL is worth more? (Ie. 6% of 30% of 62Bn). How does it work when a company invested in a Pre-IPO company?
- Senior Business Analyst/ Scrum Master Referral Hi everyone, Looking for a few referrals for Meta ( Facebook) Amazon, and Google. Im currently a Senior Business Analyst/Scrum master, and will like to venture into one of the 3 companies listed above. I have several certifications such as CSM, POPM. SAFE DevOps, etc. if anyone could provide me with
- link Google is more of a utility company than a tech company. Google makes and has made the vast majority of its revenue from search/adwords/adsense, and chrome/android exist only to steer users to google search. The cost of using google's services is getting ads targeted at you. In order to exist on the web you pretty much have to play along with google searc
- Looking for advice: is a Harvard/Stanford MBA worth the time and expenses? I recently joined Google as L3 with zero work experience. My long term goal (in 15 years) is to be a Director/VP at Google (maybe a different team). I may also decide to pursue a venture of my own after the said time period. Will an MBA be helpful towards this goal (consider 2 years of time investme
- vote Joining FAANG or starting your own startup! I have a PhD in HWT and very specialized in my field! With 2YOE and after getting business and product development experiences from my current job, I have a chance to start my own venture with the right partners, having the patents, and a big market demand. However, there is always a failure risk f
- vote Which MBA to pick ? (Stanford/Harvards/Wharton) I have gotten early admits from 2 of them. Long term ambition to be VP at Google/meta or hot Bay Area startups still in the making and become venture capitalist once I have huge net worth. Also, asking this question here because blind has good concentration of successful folks. So, I will take the
- BCG DV - Lead product manager/director L6 PM at Google (close to L7) considering interviewing with BCG digital ventures and trying to get some sense of : 1) What is culture like? Open? Is it more consulting like or tech like? 2) Work and impact 3) work life balance 4) comp 5) internal mobility - how easy is it to move offices, roles etc
- vote Google or tiny startup? If you had an option to stay at Google at 300k or seed startup at 100k what makes more sense? Is the potential success of startup worth it or is it usually never worth it. Start up is funded by Khosla Ventures, which I know is decently big but being new don't know how prestigious they are. Thanks,
- Advice as a SWE joining a Series C as a PM Hey all! I’m a L4 SWE at Google. I’m going back to startup world, but this time as a PM. I’ve founded a venture backed startup before and invest in startups through a SPV on the side. Any advice for a first time PM at ~130 person with 5 other PMs? Resources are doubly appreciated! TC: $300k EDIT
- link Interested in joining a 4 year old unicorn startup? We’ve raised nearly $300M in funding from the likes of Google Ventures and a consortium of banks which includes the likes of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Citibank. We’re looking for mid to senior level software developers and architects to work out of our headquarters in Palo Alto.
- Why is google so horrible in except for search, gmail, maps and android (maybe)?? I was and am a great Google fan, still it's sad that I have to venture to other products, even for things where Google is there for long time!! Google chat/talk/hangout/voice....all were there long back, but hardly any improvements or follow ups....others are doing way better.... Comes up with all
- Are your balls big enough for a startup? DM for referral I'm not a recruiter, just a SWE who is trying it's best to gather amazing talent. Our series B/C startup is hiring at an insane rate and YOU would not want to miss this train. Location: Fully remote in US Pay: Excellent! Positions: SWE, SWE manager, PM, recruiter, sales engineering and lots more!
- Why big tech companies are not leaving Bay Area I am curious why big tech companies are not seeking to expand outside of Bay Area more aggressively. I understand small companies and startups with great venture companies around, but what is holding Apple, Google, Facebook from moving HQ different place and just stop hiring here. Talent pool is sha
- Is it a big deal to give a referral? I've got a few friends and acquaintances at FAANG but don't know if I'd be imposing much by asking for a referral. PM hopeful here with 8-10 yoe in venture/energy/entrepreneurship + Stanford Is there an incentive/disincentive system for referrals at most places? i.e. Do you get a bonus for a succe
- Maximize tc or maximize comp/hr Which one is the better metric in your opinion? It seems like salesforce, microsoft and maybe google maximize the comp/hour putting them on the top of any comp related conversation? My opinion is its the latter. If i maximize my comp/hour, i can venture into anything i want in my free time. Bui
- Cloud tech Need advice on how to go about into Cloud technology world. Where to start ? Is AWS worthy to venture into or should we learn all the Big 3 i.e AWS, Azure, GCP. My thoughts are to start with AWS cloud practitioner and move to AWS Sol. Arch Associate and so on. Am I heading the right path ? Please gu
- Coinbase vs Stripe vs Facebook vs Google PM Role Have Facebook & Google PM offers currently and deciding whether to interview at Coinbase & Stripe. Intrigued by Coinbase because it could be a good segue into Web3. My concerns for Coinbase & Stripe are: - Will the TC for FB L5/L6 equivalent position be in the $400k-$500k range at least? - Is the
- Why does board approve new hire equity after joining the company instead of at offer acceptance time? I joined a startup few months ago, and just now received a letter claiming board approved my equity. Reading about it, it looks like that is the standard process and I didn't pay attention in my previous jobs at Google and Lyft. Just curious why does the board have to approve my equity after I joi
- What comp should I offer a co-founder? I’m a semi-technical founder looking for a more technical co-founder. I’ve built the proof of concept proto of a hardware/software product myself and working with an outside supplier in a co-development partnership (they get some royalties). I’m bootstrapping the company with money I made investing
- Seeking advice - MS PM to Product Management outside Hi folks, I have close to 15 years experience . 9 years at Microsoft as PM and Dev before that. I am looking to venture out into the non MS space. I am looking for pointers on how a typical product manager interview looks like at FB, Google or start ups. I have done big product level work in MS and
- Mina Protocol Pros: legitimate project, decent tokenomics, medium market cap, backed by three arrows capital and coinbase ventures, etc. Cons: we are currently mid (or end of) bull run depending on who you ask, currently storing their backups on google cloud, still very early and their zk tech isn’t complete yet
- Seeking to understand: Why Facebook? Among the big tech companies, why would someone go work for Facebook (FB)? Aside from maybe working with good people I can't figure out why people would be interested in FB. Google I understand for example. It's a diversified company with many different compelling opportunities over short and long
- Hiring backend and dev ops engineers My company is hiring 2. Backend Enterprise Developer and 1 Dev Ops Engineer. Series B startup backed by Sequoia Capital , Google Ventures and Tiger Global. work is in Virtual / Augmented Reality , 3D and computational Geometry. ** GreenCard holders and US Citizens Only. 100% remote within USA
- 7.5 Million initial funding. 1.5 million ARR start up. Is this going to the moon? I have less than 6 months experience. So I don't really have much industry knowledge. Not sure how good the start up is based on the above numbers. We have all of senior engineers from Google, Microsoft and Linkedin with 8-12 years of experience. I can choose to have any % of my salary as equity. C
- Need Referrals Hi, I will be graduating from Cornell University with masters in Computer Science this May’19. I have been preparing for interviews for quite some time now. I have done around 500 questions in leetcode. I am very passionate about programming and love solving problems on platforms like codeforces an
- Transitioning out of management consulting I’ve spent nearly two years in management consulting as an associate and am confident that I’m not interested in becoming a partner here. I’m tired of the random pressure and irrational hours - feel like moving out is best for my mental health. My spouse is changing countries to the US, and I’m loo
- vote NYC vs Silicon Valley for Tech? Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, TikTok, etc. are heavily investing in NYC right now. Facebook recently leased the entire Farley building in Manhattan to triple its current local work force. Apple is expanding to another building in Manhattan. And Google and Amazon are also expanding corporate campu
- vote MLE Career in FAANG vs MBA -> Startups/VC Currently an applied scientist in MS enjoying ML work with 2 YOE. Would you choose to build MLE career in FAANG or focus on entering the startup and venture capital scene through acquiring a MBA from Stanford or Harvard. I am asking because I am getting the feeling that who ever gets promoted up th
- vote Best stage of startup to join with 0-2 YoE My goal is LONG-term career growth and potentially being a founder. Which stage of startup should I join? The typical narrative: join Big Tech first to get it on your resume, “learn best practices”, build network. Then think about startups later. Ok great, I’ve now worked at FAANG and Salesforce (
- Any Google PM who used to be entrepreneurs? (HC question) After team matching, I'm supposed to go through the HC stage. I was told by the recruiter it may be beneficial if I can provide some referrals, mainly if they were my managers. I've been working on my own ventures for nearly a decade, so naturally I didn't have someone who "managed" me. Can the la
- How to leverage brand name of a FAANG company effectively as a PM? Seeking guidance on this since I joined Meta 3 years ago, after leaving a pre IPO company after a short tenure of 3 months (so no stock vested and they IPOed successfully). Naturally, it would have been more financially rewarding to stay there, but it was the brand name that drove me to Meta. Since
- Seeking PM mentoring To everyone already doing product, I am writing to seek mentorship for a career move as a PM. Work EX: Started with Microsoft as Azure Platform Support Moved to Atlassian as a Devops Engineer Have a failed venture that didn't take off I am really passionate about product and I'm okay to start from
- What’s next? Hey everyone, I recently started working at Google and it’s been great. But my goal has been to achieve FIRE and I know for a fact I won’t get there by continuously working on a 9-5. I’m still early on in my career. I was thinking of starting a roofing company but not entirely sure how to do that. I
- Senior engineer and management opportunities So I’m a senior dev at a big tech company about to hit 9 years and my manager wants to know the path I wish to venture down next. I can go staff or go manager. I like the idea of manager but what are career opportunities like as a manager? I find I have lots of options and got nearly 7 job offers fr
- vote Best FAANG in 10 years Everybody now wants to work at G or F. I think F and G have a future less bright than their present. Their only source of revenue is advertising, which is the single most fought thing by congress, society and overall regulations; Their cultures are somewhat imperfect: G is super slow and often fail