Current TC 400k
Have a couple of offers, Nest and LinkedIn being my top picks, LinkedIn is offering a Senior and a 270 - 290 TC, Nest is offering an L4 with 150k base, 15% target cash bonus (15-25% range) and around 300k stocks, no sign on Now, it's fairly easy to calculate LinkedIn TC, their cash bonus is 10% ann...Read more
How is this offer for L4 SW TPM at Nest: Base 170k RSU 400k Signon 10k Current TC: Base 160k Unvested RSU 200k 9yoe, all as HW TPM (product level, not chips). How is Nest culture? Is it still considered second-class compared to core G?
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
Two offers enter, one leaves. Fight! DoorDash: E5, TC Year 1: 380k…200k base, 20k sign on, 640k grant (160k/year) ClickUp: Staff Engineer, 245k base, 1.25M options value About me: - 5 years experience - looking to build a nest egg and buy a home in the next 2-3 years, rent currently - ClickUp wou...Read more
Have offers from Google, Uber and Apple for SWE role and not sure which one to choose. Google L4: Google sounds stable but boring. TM done. Need to choose between Nest and GCP. Nest team seemed better. Numbers not given yet. Location: Bay Area Apple: ICT3. AMP org. Team looked good and offered ro...Read more
Is Corporate Nepotism an issue just at Google or in other tech companies as well? For example - hiring of friends from past employers and elevating them to broad Scopes and positions without them having earned it while others have to prove themselves and work their way up the ladder (which based on ...Read more
Canadian TC: 🥜 155k base no stock YOE: 5 years Trying to find a good place where I can get build a nest egg. I have thought about doing contact but most jobs I come across are 95/hr which is only 197k. Goal is to get somewhere around 500k TC. Also open to changing to other software jobs.
Trying to decide between two cars for young adult kid for college. Base vehicle is a Lexus RX350. Kid is getting an AA degree soon and transferring to a state school. Spouse and I disagree on year made versus mileage and upgrades. We’re paying cash. Both are certified used and can be returned with...Read more
I applied a software engineer position in Seattle office but I cannot find any recruiter based on this area. Do the Bay area recruiters take care of Seattle, too? Just curious anyone would look into my resume since no response for three days. I usually got contacted by recruiters within one or two ...Read more
I am a PM. Should I take FRL or Google. The teams that I got matched with at google are: 1. Google Image Search 2. Google Nest Hardware 3. Google Pixel I want to know based on the following: 1. I am on H1b so is there any risk (layoff, reorg etc) 2. Perm processing - I heard FB is not doing p...Read more
Hi guys, How is the Product Job market for AI based intelligent devices such as Nest, smartphones etc? I have heard about massive layoffs in Alexa so not sure what is the market outlook for intelligent devices considering there could be other reasons for layoffs in Alexa - not just poor market for ...Read more
Got a verbal offer. They are saying its for a IC5 but not opposed to IC6. Its a Cloud CTO role as a part of the pre-sales engineering org. Is it worth the risk? Any idea about the team there? Life is good(busy) here at AWS, so thinking why shake the nest. Base: 215 RSU: 7K (over 4 yrs) Signing bonu...Read more
No long texts, direct points Work Experience: - 3 years in 2 different MNCs Current status :- MS CS top 50 school international student Dominant tech stack :- Javascript, Node.js, AWS(SQS, SNS, Lambda, Eventbridge, EC2 etc.), React.js, GraphQL,C++, Python etc. Application count :- 200 - 300 ? l...Read more
Getting convicted on criminal charge doesn’t stop one (constitutionally) to become US president. Then why the sudden pursuit to convict Trump (and ruffle the political hornet’s nest) for business-related crimes from 7years ago? It seems to me that this conviction will only cause Trump to come more ...Read more
Colleague is a couple years more experienced than me. But code they write is very substandard. Private nested classes accessing private methods of parent classes for example. Every code review ends with the same comment - "let's merge this in now but refactor it later". Code base is ugly, modules ...Read more
Hey guys, Can someone explain my rejection after their OA? It was 3 questions (2 LC mediums) and a basic problem to fetch some JSON data from a Hackerrank API and return a formatted string based on a nested field. I passed every test case (which also check for runtime), the code was fairly clear, a...Read more
While I feel for the kids with less than 2 years of experience getting let go as they're starting out, I'm a little over the dudes with 15+ years at Google/Microsoft/Amazon/Salesforce/Facebook crying about the shock of being let go. Btch PULEAZZE!!!! You've been pulling at least $200K TC or exponen...Read more
Me: - TC 205 (startup, so all base) - 30 years old - Nest egg of $130k - Paying >;3k rent in SF right now and want to own for variety of personal reasons I'm planning to buy and live in a (strongly prefer a detached) home #housing for 700-830k, around 6-8% down. I've seen some houses in that rang
So my fiancée and I have started house hunting in the Bay Area. We've accumulated a decent nest egg, but I'm wondering how much we should realistically budget, given that our RSUs will eventually taper off. We're in non-technical roles, so our refreshers are mediocre. I just happened to have gotten ...Read more