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- vote Airbnb L5 OR Linkedin Staff OR low-key recent IPO Hi, I recently interviewed with dozens of companies and got some offers. I’m considering choose between these three. 1. Airbnb L5 (225 + 680 + 50) 20% Yearly bonus Project is not very interesting but can change team after a year. Dream company. Good refresh. 2. Linkedin Staff (240 + 750 + 70
- Rippling upside and IPO Plan Recruiter reached out on linkedin, recruiter mentioned 2-3 years to IPO. Whats the upside at this point, since they are already valuing themselves at ~10B? #rippling #meta #ipo #startup YOE: 8, TC: 550k
- Hot Tech Companies - Seattle/Remote? I am actively interviewing for senior SWE band and applying to hot tech companies or ones that still have an air of excitement around the products/service… and of-course pays top line 🚀🚀 I intend to stay in the company for next 4-5 years preferably. Here’s my current shortlist. Recent IPO: - Ro
- What companies for top TC/hour + WLB in 2022? I'm looking for L4 roles. Liquid stock only/realistic chance of IPO. Anyone got referrals, lmk. Amazon Meta Lyft Uber Google Linkedin Airbnb Apple Box YOE 2 TC 170
- Finding startup jobs How do you search for jobs in pre-ipo companies? Is there some pre-ipo job website? LinkedIn kind of sucks in terms searching and filtering.
- Large scale layoffs at better.com Seeing a lot of LinkedIn posts with whole teams being laid off. What happened? I thought they were going to IPO soon..
- Companies better than LinkedIn? Been at LinkedIn for about 4 years, but got dropped off a cliff and most of the motivated and competent members from my cross-functional team left for Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, and the like. The ride was fun while it lasted I'm also looking for my next play, whether pre-IPO or well-established
- Want an Affirm referral? DM if interested in a referral to Affirm. Include your LinkedIn in the message. Almost all teams are hiring. Lots of #product #swe #eng #pm #productManager roles etc. We’re Remote-friendly company-wide. #affirm #tech #fintech #ipo #hiring #jobopening #recruiting #referral
- How to find pre-ipo or good startup companies ? Hi Blinders, I am starting my job search soon and was wondering if I should be aiming for public companies that provide equity or look out for pre-ipo or very late stage startups ? The big problem is finding good pre-ipo companies. I only get to know about startups after they create buzz on Blind. E
- Do LinkedIn SWE get RSU/stock options? Title pretty much says it all. FAANG employees making bank with solid stock appreciation past few years. Recent IPO company like Snowflake employees making bank with junk stocks becoming worth a lot after IPO. What do LinkedIn employees get since the company is kind of in a limbo between being pri
- Consider joining Darabricks Hi Blind, I’m currently a SWE(15 months experience - out of college) at LinkedIn, TC ~190. I think I’ll get to Sr. SWE this summer(talked with my manager) so I hope my TC increases closer to 250. Recently, an EM manager from DB reached out and showed interest in me and I asked for 2months preparati
- LinkedIn, SoFi or stay at Flexport? TC: $250 (base + bonus) + $100k RSUs YOE: 8 Being at Flexport for a couple of years, senior position, got offers from both LinkedIn and SoFi. Both offers are a bit higher than current TC. Flexport is fine, no big complaints but may be 2 or 3 years away from a potential IPO and is a bit boring. How
- Why are people leaving Stripe? It's anecdotal but I've been seeing people leaving on blind and LinkedIn... this is really weird since they are pre-IPO... I know about their comp structure but still... Is there something going on that we don't know about?
- Databricks IPO https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-24/microsoft-backed-databricks-is-said-to-plan-2021-stock-listing What would be the IPO Valuation? Looking at its number (https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/14/databricks-crossed-350m-run-rate-in-q3-up-from-200m-one-year-ago/), it's not as impressive as s
- vote LinkedIn PM Perception Interested to understand how LinkedIn PMs are perceived in industry. Amongst these companies how do they rank in terms of quality? (1 = ranked highest) Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, pre-IPO startups (stripe, Instacart etc) #productmanager #linkedin
- SNAP Earnings report falling into the internet IPO pattern of having a rough wall street reaction of the Q1 reports. fb and linkedin and others have had this too. thoughts on buy opportunity?
- Pre IPO companies Other than sheer luck or coincidence, do you know any way to find out potential pre IPO companies that are looking promising? For regular job, LinkedIn works. But how do keep up to date with hot startups?
- Dropbox offers nowadays What do they offer after IPO? Still as good as FANG? Their recruiter messaged me on Linkedin so I wonder if it worths a try.
- Companies paying more than 450k for FB L5 equivalent Hi, I am trying to make a list of the companies which can pay above 450k TC (excluding joining bonus). Yoe: 8 fb e5 tc 340k. My list so far is: (ipo only) Netflix Uber L5a/b Snapchat L4/L5 Linkedin Staff Google L5 Pinterest L5 Apple ict4/5 Amazon sde3 Twitter staff Dropbox ic4/5 Roblox ic4/5 Coup
- vote [IND] Rubrik vs stay in LinkedIn I got an offer from Rubrik. It is as follows Base: 38 Stocks: 120K$ (pre ipo) TC: 68lakhs (including paper stocks) Current TC at LinkedIn Base: 22 Stocks: 170k$ TC: 53lakhs Yoe: 1.4 Please help me choose one
- Is it a good time to join Uber/Airbnb/Slack/Stripe/Lyft I am a senior at LinkedIn data infra. US citizen and have no visa issues. Enjoying my time at LinkedIn doing good backend distributed systems work. Have done a lot of leetcoding and very strong in coding and systems interviews. Does it make sense to give it a shot to the pre ipo companies which are
- vote Plaid vs Linkedin Given that the offers from both Plaid and Linkedin are same as well as the work life balance in both companies is comparable. Which one would you chose? Inclined towards plaid due to possibility of it being pre IPO.
- Flexport what is your opinion on hot startups to join at this point? Flexport is listed in tipo linkedin and TC. there isnt too many high growth startups that have path to profitability before IPO...
- How to approach FAANG recruiters on LinkedIn? I want to apply to some FAANG and pre IPO unicorns. How to approach their recruiters on LinkedIn? When I apply to their career portal, I get no response. I don't even find referrals useful. What to do?
- Would you guys consider CircleCI as a solid pre-ipo company? Considering it against other companies like Mirror, Rivian, LinkedIn, Square. Seems like it's been leading CI/CD space and has had a lot of growth. What do you guys think? #startup #ipo #tier #circleci #interview #compensation
- Leaving Tiktok, frontend remote referrals appreciated! Looking for some friendly blinders to give me a referral. 🙏 Hoping to land at a near-IPO / post-IPO tech companies with fully remote frontend roles (nonremote=dealbreaker). Good WLB is a plus. DM for resume. (also, if you're interested in working at tiktok and want a referral there, dm me! my team
- vote Offer Eval help Looking for offer eval suggestions. Comp wise Instacart is the highest. The rest are similar. Any suggestion is appreciated! Mostly considering Instacart but unsure about IPO upside for Instacart given the current valuation is high. 1. Instacart Senior 1 2. LinkedIn Senior 3. Snowflake 4. Pintere
- Robinhood interview A recruiter reached out on LinkedIn. Not in the groove of interviewing but planning to schedule a call with recruiter to get an idea of the role to see if it’s worth putting in the effort right now. Is it a good idea to straight out ask the offer range that Robinhood can offer for a level and if the
- Using LinkedIn open jobs to guess growth When picking pre ipo startups to join is it accurate to use the number of open jobs on LinkedIn to guess how fast the company is growing? Or is there too much noise in using that as a signal? What signals do you guys use?#equity #startup
- How to evaluate a Pre-IPO company? Other than checking Glassdoor or LinkedIn, how to evaluate if a Pre-IPO company is promising? Or how to know how much stock options to ask? If it’s s series C? If valued by last investment round at 500 million in Bay Area?
- vote Help me choose between LinkedIn and Cruise Got offers from LinkedIn and Cruise LinkedIn Role: SE TC : 250k (base and RSU) Sign on 60k Location: Sunnyvale * good team * great wlb * Brand name and less uncertainty *Hybrid Cruise Role: SSE I TC 288k (47K paper money) Signon 50k Location: remote/SF/seattle * Seems like a good team, work
- What startups do you guys recommend? The million $ question - I’m looking for companies that have 50-200 people, 4 years pre ipo with b2c products Angel list kind of sucks and having a hard time finding them on LinkedIn Yoe- 2.5 strategy background at doordash TC: 200k Ideally looking to enter product
- link I am being rejected after reviewing my Resume/LinkedIn I have 10+ years of experience. Recently I have applied to few top tech companies and pre-ipo companies. After reviewing my resume/linkedin, those companies are not moving forward with my profile. What are the possible problems with my resume/profile ? I have a good experience working with multiple
- companies with ML problems with large scale data I am a SWE working in applied NLP and have some experience with multimodal data. I am looking for non-fang or pre ipo companies that deal with massive data like G scale or potentially equivalent like Discord. I am especially interested in multi-modality aspects. Companies i have in mind: Twitter
- Offering and looking for referrals I am a SWE at facebook (this account if from an internship at uber) and I am looking for referrals at LinkedIn, Google, Stripe, AirBnb, Pinterest, Robinhood and any good pre-IPO companies. Also, have an interest in Fintech and hedgefunds. More than willing to offers referrals at Facebook aswell.
- Moveworks offer I have an offer at moveworks. I live in Colorado and I will be fully remote for the role. It's for a backend developer position. How is the company? I see lots of Indian folks on LinkedIn so I am worried about wlb. I met with the cto and I am really impressed at how the company is doing. Thoughts? W
- I'm Referring 4YOE+ Engineers to Instacart If you're a software engineer/engineering manager, have 4+ YOE, are based in North America and interested in joining us at Instacart, comment here or DM me your resume/linkedin. Not including details about company culture, compensation etc as there're plenty of other threads about that. #instacart
- vote What will you chose? A) 350k all liquid comp. 200k base , 150k stocks Or B) 350k from private company 200k base, 150k paper money Although there are more nuances to it. Companies does matter but also things like a clear picture to IPO which is often hidden. For example, see companies like Reddit which have been pri
- vote Which company would offer max tc for 7 yoe IC ? Which amongst the below would offer max tc (assume equivalent leveling in interview), comment for other public companies not listed in the poll. Please don't mention pre IPO companies for this discussion. tc - 300k #engineering #software #swe #faang #facebook #google #apple #netflix #citadel #j
- Looking for Referrals: Group / Principal Product Manager YOE - 15 TC - 300k Hey Blind community! I am a group / principal level Product manager at a public company (Not Resmed), looking to move to a late stage startup / pre-ipo / public company. My interests are in developer facing products, platform products across tech, healthcare and marketplace indu
- vote NYC OFFERS - Apple vs Oscar health I have an offer from Oscar Health and Apple ICT4 in NYC. Oscar has filed IPO and seems to have crazy growth as I see a lot of their employees get promoted like rocket according to their LinkedIn. Which one would you choose if they had similar TC? Work wise, which one would be better to gain experien
- H1B - product companies (Like FAANG) vs consulting i have been in consulting for over 15 yrs and progressively H1B process is becoming difficult from all the documentation needed file H1 to the number of RFE’s etc. wondering if the situation is same or worse in post ipo silicon valley tech companies like linkedin, splunk, amazon, yelp, wayfair, sla
- I hope blind takes over LinkedIn LinkedIn is the biggest goddamned waste of time ever and it uses sketchy/corrupt dark user interface patterns (though to microsofts credit they've at least cut a little bit of the sketchiness) Blind could be an edgy/real/credentialed LinkedIn I'd much rather ask questions here than put on a phony/
- Tech PM Referral Hi all looking for full time Product/Program Manager referrals at big/medium tech as well as pre-IPO companies (which provides visa sponsorship). Total 6+ years of cumulative work experience in implementation, product management and Analytics in Big4 Consulting. Happy to provide more info via DM! C
- Non-tech attrition high at Stripe? Noticed the LinkedIn profile of a woman who I lost out to on a non-tech role at Stripe a few years back. She is no longer at Stripe and lasted 1.5 years. I was initially bummed when I didn’t get the role but bounced back at DD pre-IPO. Curious if attrition is high for non-tech roles at Stripe. Bad
- Which companies allow full remote to senior engineers? Planning to switch to full remote, and in case things don’t work out as I expected in the future and I need to find another job, I want to see if there are still other good options, ie, fang, pre-ipo startups, high TC. Tc 450 Ps: by fang I mean all the top hi-tech companies, including but not limit
- Can you help me sorting the best companies to apply to? I am trying to rank companies where I want to apply. My target is to maximize first (TC, WLB) and then (reputation, growth opportunity). So far I have: - established and safe, good WLB/TC: google, netflix, dropbox, twitter - healthy pre-ipo: stripe, databricks - healthy post-ipo: twilio, square - hi
- vote Offer Decision Help (Google, Brex, Pinterest, Uber, Roblox, Snap, and more) Hello Blind, Interviewed a bunch lately and was fortunate to get some great offers, 15 in total but I've just listed out the top competitors here, please help me pick. Priorities: 1a. TC 1b. WLB 2a. Growth 2b. Stability 3. Benefits 4. Culture Offer Comparison Format: 1. Base / Total Equity / Sig
- Medium tech PM referral Hi all looking for full time PM referrals at medium tech and pre-IPO companies please. 5 years of cumulative work experience, 1 year of PM experience (4 years MBB consulting, MBA). Happy to provide more info via DM! Companies (non exhaustive) I was looking at --> #Shopify #better.com, #Snap, #Li
- How to become a startup advisor ? I see a lot of LinkedIn profiles with people as advisors to startups. With 20+ years of experience in tech on primarily the business side, including IPO experience and big tech experience, I feel I can add a lot of value to tech founders. How do I find startups looking for help in Positioning, GTM