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- Good questions to ask HM after receiving an offer Hey guys, I received an offer for a Data Engineer role at a series D startup (170k base + 1.6k options) at 1.5b valuation ($20 fair market evaluation, strike price $10) and waiting on several other on-site results. In the meantime, I scheduled a chat with the hiring manager so I can ask questions
- Marketing Director Salaries I’m just wondering if I’m severely underpaid or not? Salary check for a Marketing Director in the Medical/Plastic Surgery Field 65k/ 4yr Bus Degree + 2 yr Associates Deg/ 12 yrs in Design Field before becoming Director. Anyone else?
- best stocks with market cap under $10B We have seen in the last five years several stocks with market cap under $10B increased 10-50 times like SQ, TTD, OKTA, ROKU, AMD, TDOC, DOCU, SHOP, ZOOM, TWLO, etc. What are your choices for the next five year and why? I’ll go first. NIO: they are China’s Tesla. Huge potential to grow. Market ca
- CPG to tech Product Marketing Manager Having a difficult time making the transition from CPG to tech as a product marketing manager. There are several parallels but hiring managers are not seeing them and I haven't been getting much response. Any tips? Currently a Brand Manager/Product Manager and trying to get into the tech scene in
- Good Luck to those impacted. Good Luck to all the folks who will no longer be with us after this massive re-org. Thank you for your services. Don’t take this RIF as a judgement on your capabilities. Don’t let it diminish your self esteem. We all find ourselves holding the short straw from time to time. Keep your chin high and
- Product management to Product marketing management- is it good option? I have 8+years of product management experience in fintech space. Lately, I have been feeling that may be PRoduct management is not for me and have been thinking of changing to product marketing management. I have passion for marketing and I think I might be good at it. I haven’t done work directly
- link Stock Market crash on it way... Folks - several financial experts are predicting that the stock market will crash soon... let's be smart and sell some and hold cash before it's too late ... https://youtu.be/htPeWxpBEOw. A word to a wise is enough 😀
- Missed the boat? Is it fair to say that most high TC today is a result of holding stock that has vested over several years? if so, is it too late to benefit from this given the impending market crash?
- Another Market Crashing Looming? Market Timing is not something several people are good at but in this case all bells and whistles are going off. I had no choice but to move 70% of my equity investments to cash. Was this a good call?
- Got laid off recently. Asking for referrals. I got laid off recently due to our management trying to cut costs and relocating jobs to different location. I am looking for job as software engineer preferably C#/.Net language. Looks like job market is very competitive due to recent layoff in multiple companies. Please help a fellow software engi
- Tech stocks will fall. Prove me wrong. 1) Past 10 years have been stellar for tech. Can’t win forever, right? 2) We’re due for a proper recession. The covid recession was weird. It was short lived and the market went all time high in a few months after! 3) This one may be subjective but we have severely overvalued tech companies like Tes
- How to asked to get layoff and ask for severance package at Apple? I want to spend a few months studying for interviews. My current job is unbearable, bad reviews, manager doesn't know any tech, my pay is way below market . Should I quit or somehow get layoff and ask for a severance package? What is a better choice here?
- Best training program for product marketing? My company got acquired and my whole marketing team was on the chopping block, so I’m looking for some good learning opportunities to beef up my product marketing resume while I’m on severance. I’ve heard the Pragmatic Institute is great - any other recs? I’ll be looking at roles in Charlotte in a
- vote Fight Pivot or Leave Got a Pivot Plan after working at Amazon for 9 months as a Product Manager. Is it worth trying to fight the plan or should I take the severance and try to find another job? All perspectives welcome Info: New MBA 2021 grad hire so only 9 months post-grad of work experience. TC: 175k I know the mar
- Got Laid off today - Looking for referral Hi all, I have experience in Cloud SaaS, IoT, Networking and solutions. I am looking for Solutions Engineer, Systems Engineer, IoT engineer, Technical Marketing, Customer Success Engineer. It would be great if you could provide a referral or provide some guidance. Thank you in advance. Yoe: 5
- whole foods market and amazon physical store technology I work at Whole Foods Market tech. Given the circumstances, I know we are hiring several SDEs to deploy current physical store technology to the WFM store environment. Most roles are based in Austin, TX. I can provide the name of the Sr. recruiter if interested. #sde #softwaredeveloper
- Request feedback on offer - Sr. Director Got a new offer letter with AT&T and would like your evaluation. Sr Director, Marketing Base $200K Bonus 25% Signon $50K. Has to be paid back in full if employment ends prior to 18 months. RSU $65K with 3 year vesting YOE 10 Is it normal that there is no severance clause in Director/Sr. Director
- link Buying a house? Read this! I’ve been looking for a house for 3 months now in the San Francisco Bay Area and I’d like to share my learnings. If you been there, done that, you can skip this, otherwise, feel free to continue reading. 1. Your agent is not your best friend. They want to establish trust so they can sell you a hous
- How can I get severance? I’m a temp employee at Cisco. My manager let me go without notice and no severance with only 2 weeks pay, due to a personality conflict (my manager wants a yes woman). i have no savings, and am truly scared. im not incompetent or incapable. im really good at what i do. this hurts extra bad becaus
- Amazon comp system is broken. Board of Directors, where are you? Amazon's comp system is broken, and it reflects the poor judgment of our executives (..."Markets teach. The lessons can be painful" per Jeff B). Our Board of Directors approves this comp system that incentivizes the wrong behavior and imaginary forecasting. Forecasting problem. 15% YoY stock growth
- link Layoff Announcement from Better.com Hi folks, BetterWolf here! I posted last night that layoffs are coming @ Better.com. Here's the announcement that just went out. Over 4,000 of my co-workers were let go today! FU Vishal Garg. Team, We have an important and difficult announcement today, and the leadership team and I want you to
- vote FAAMG? It should be FAAMG — not FAANG — but it doesnt sound as good. All the other tech giants have multiple businesses or have disrupted several markets (e.g. Apple redefined personal computing, phones, online music, and introduced tablets). Netflix is the most one dimensional of all. So which company is
- link Thoughts on facebooks aloha? Aloha has been tested in employee homes for several months, and the company is said to have plans to bring the device to market in May 2018 with a price tag of $499. https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/23/16194094/facebook-building-8-aloha-video-chat-intelligent-speaker-device-andrew-bosworth
- Do HFT firms typically do layoffs in a recession? Just a question for curiosity. Do high frequency trading firms like Jane Street, HRT, DRW, Two Sigma, Jump, etc typically experience lay offs when the economy downturns? If so, how severe? Or are their algos so good they can make money even when the market is going down? TC: low
- Recruiter asked me if I have other interviews. Should I be transparent? Should I disclose the company names? I'm currently on the market for a new job and interviewing around with several companies Recruiters often asked if I'm in the process with other companies and my policy so far is to be fully transparent. In other words, "I have onsites with FANG, linkedin, Uber, Roblox..." But the market is hot no
- link Career Opportunity Just wanted to share this again by industry, but my company is currently hiring for many positions. If you’re looking to enter the digital media industry, and are interested in any of the open positions, feel free to message me! https://www.unified.com/careers/ (Several mid level positions availab
- Investor Ackman says U.S. facing 'classic bubble' fueled by Fed's easy money policy "Every indicator is flashing red," Ackman said, citing surging prices in real estate, the art market and the stock market. He called inflation the biggest risk for his hedge fund this year and said he expects the central bank will have to raise rates soon, echoing warnings he made on Twitter severa
- What sets Stripe apart for the future? I just got an offer from Stripe for TC $210 which is slightly less than I was hoping for. I'm wondering what sets them apart from other payment companies for good growth? I understand the value and risks of a payment aggregator but I'm curious what the growth case looks like in a market with severa
- vote Looking for options, home appraisal short by 20% Buying a new construction house in a developing area for 1.4M. At the very last minute (1 week to close) the appraisal came 20% short. I have already engaged another bank and trying to get the house appraised and close the loan on time (we have ~80% probability that this new bank will close on time)
- (Phoenix) Looking for a technical co-founder or technical advice for social media app Over the past few months, I have put together a business plan, pitch deck, and created several mock-ups of an app idea that I have. I have already shared the idea online in a community of target-market individuals and received 357 Yes votes (97% approval). Additionally, I have made several rounds o
- Instacart is hiring big, offering referrals Instacart has several massive ambitious goals and we are hiring big and aggressively for tech/non-tech roles this year offering more money than most (all?) companies on the market and expecting a blockbuster IPO very soon. I am offering good referrals to any strong experienced candidates interested
- vote Should the pip culture be illegal? Just saw the Robinhood’s pip culture post. Some companies are performing poorly in the stock market. They want to save some money by firing a portion of their employees. Instead of giving them severance packages they put them on pip and fire them with almost nothing. These companies save so much mon
- Friend is going through severe hardship, need referral Hello people of blind. My friend in London is going through a severe financial and emotional hardship. On top of that she is facing harassment at her student job. She is available in the job market and needs a full time job immediately. She has majored with a BA in marketing and communication and a
- Laid off 7 days before the holidays :( I just got news that our company is laying off 1/3 of the team, and I unfortunately was included in that group. What shitty timing as I just signed a new lease in a different city and was supposed to leave the bay area in a couple weeks. I work in content marketing and I don't know if this is a long
- El Salvador + Bitcoin Though the market has been bearish since Musk Mellon’s tweet and China ban. The good news will eventually catch up with market. El Salvador making BTC legal tender is just tip of the iceberg. This peaked interest in several other nations where their currency is already extremely devalued. In the l
- Job market during the end of the year I am planning to take one month off during the October or November and try several interviews together. Because it is during the time when most of the companies will RTO, I want to weigh how competitive will it be during that period. Will more positions open up compared to more job seekers in the ma
- Dark secrets about tech industry Let me tell you young boys and girls trying to make it here This is a cut throat place. You have to keep reinventing yourself. The experience you had before will very soon become irrelevant. Please become a developer/programmer only if you are really wanting to. Don’t do it because it pays. By the
- Companies with high morale It seems that in the past several months moral has dipped at a lot of companies. If attrition is bad at your company, employees end up doing more work and goals aren’t achieved. If you’re at a pre-IPO, your leadership is not going to IPO during these market conditions. If you’re at a public growth
- Interesting times ahead This week there have been several houses that went pending and those houses were sitting on the market for over a month. We won’t know until escrow closes about what price they went for. Either the buyers cracked first or the sellers cracked first. Would be very interesting to see who caved in and
- UX design to Product Marketing transition I want to transition from UX design role to a PMM role. I'm tired of doing the nitty gritty design work that may never end up in the product. Many times, we take orders from senior management who don't really value design. It has limited my creativity. I did marketing for some personal projects and
- Jobs in North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham) Who are the best/highest paying companies here? I know of several: Cisco IBM Red Hat Lenovo Fidelity Credit Suisse Edit: Adding from posts: Citrix SAS Specialized satellite offices: Microsoft Oracle NVIDIA Google Does anyone else have any other bigger company names with a presence? Keeping an
- Am I being lowballed? So, got an offer for a marketing role at a FAANG company. TC is the equivalent of $96k a year (I'm in the UK). I have about 7yoe and have worked for (and with) some big names across several industries. Based on the feedback from the team, I outperformed by a fair amount compared to other candidate
- Content Designers, don't join Meta Will keep this short: Several fellow CDs and I recently interviewed for senior CD roles and received a slew of offers in both SF and NY with compensation packages that far exceed what Meta gives us. Recruiters have been telling us there's more CD roles on the job market than there are qualified ind
- vote Breaking in to Enterprise tech sales Currently a successful AE in my target market—mid-market and SMBs. Great company, great culture, good product. While I'm in a good place, the product I sell isn't a fit at all for most larger companies. Would love to jump to an Enterprise role, but most orgs aren't biting on interviews unless I hav
- Laid off for 3 months and losing hope :( Hi Blind fam, I've been laid off for 3 months and the job market is so tough! I've made it to a few onsites, but all of them end up leading to a no since I don't have specific level of expertise in an area. It's honestly such a shitty feeling to continue to get rejected like this. Does anyone have
- Is 4% rule still valid? Is FIRE actually proved right? I read a few research about FIRE. seems all theory and just several stories on youtube/ websites to get visits and sell ads. In reality, is the 4% rule still valid? Fed has printed money like crazy who will know jow expensive a meal will be next decade. Buy and hold stock assumes US index funds ke
- Agoda Hiring? Hey Agoda friends, I’ve been seeing several new job postings for Agoda in the Bay Area, but with a required relocation to Bangkok. I’m interested in one of these roles, (Analyst on the Performance Marketing team) and was hoping to learn more about your experience at Agoda, etc. I would be glad to r
- Data Warehousing Cloud Giants: how do you feel about Snowflake’s rise? This question is mostly geared to people working in AWS on Redshift or GCP on BigQuery(or on adjacent products). Do you feel ok, with the belief that your products are superior and will eventually beat snowflake with innovation and scale that they can’t match? Are your execs angry that you even le
- Convince me to invest money I have severe anxiety, grew up poor and have someone in extended family who lost everything they had in the stock market. I know I'm losing money keeping cash but I setup a vanguard once and pulled out within days as it gave me sleepless nights. How can I get over this fear? What are safe options to
- Dealing with a drawn out bear market? How would you passively increase your NW (besides having a job) and protect it against inflation during a drawn out bear market that lasts several years? Would you still invest in index funds if they keep declining slowly for multiple consecutive years? Would real estate be the only answer? Any thou