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- About to hit 250K TC need advice We have been a single income home for the last 2 years while my wife was in nursing school. She will be graduating soon and has an offer already lined up for 90K TC. In total this will bring up our income to right around 250K TC. What suggestions does everyone have with regard to where to invest our
- Marcus by Goldman Sachs Online Savings Marcus Goldman Sachs Online Savings Account is offering a referral bonus of an additional .50% APY for anyone who signs up. They’re currently offering .50% APY. DM for the link. #personalfinance #investments #savings
- [INDIA] Do employers match pf history with resume / background check Folks, need some urgent advice here. I recently joined a new company (A). I was already in process with another company (B). However due to delay, I accepted offer from company A and joined them. Couple weeks back received a way better offer from company B (Both comp and work). I accepted the new of
- Google H1B questionnaire Hi friends, I have recently accepted a google offer for L4 SWE. I have received an email to set up account on cobalt. After signing into cobalt I don't see any questionnaire, how long does it typically take to see the questionnaire after setting up the cobalt account? T.C: 284K Y.O.E: < 4 #goo
- Offer Letter Rescinded. Refs please I accepted an offer a few weeks back and sent in my resignation letter to my current employer. During Pre onboarding, the help people told me my offer was rescinded. Trying to connect with my new prospective employer but they have been ghosting me. Just upgraded to a more expensive apartment to line
- A fruitless job search finally worked out! (MAANG) To put this post in perspective, I started applying to jobs around September of last year. Since then, I've received quite a few offers, but always at entry level. At the time, due to stock appreciation, none of those offers were competitive with my compensation (220k): Amazon L4: 180k, eventually
- Top tier graduates (Berkeley, Stanford) at low tier companies. Twitter account bio ? Wondering what to put as a bio in my Twitter account ? I ended up at eBay unfortunately after graduation. But what should I put as my bio now ? I mentioned that I was working on startups and stuff before as my bio and I thought after graduation I am getting hella cool full time offers but I guess
- Best IRA account to get What is the best IRA account to get for a 401K rollover? Been looking at etrade and tdameritrade as they offer good sign up bonuses.
- Trying to update Amazon offer with new Base comp Policy Received the below offer for Senior PM - AWS Tech Amazon last week. Just saw and confirmed Amazon has updated their base salary policy cap from 160k to 350k. Reached out to recruiter to see if they can update the offer to take the new policy into account. Will update once I hear back 160k Base 423k
- Attempting to switch AWS teams before hire I initially interviewed for AWS Commerce Platform team but am being offered a position for AWS Accounts team. I met with the HM for Accounts and got info but I’m also curious about the Commerce Platform team. Would it look bad if I asked the recruiter to get me info on the commerce platform team bu
- vote Stay at AWS or go to Stripe ? I have an opportunity to join stripe as an account executive for enterprise accounts or stay at AWS. The AWS role: I would transfer into the enterprise account team working as an inside sales representative covering multiple accounts (8) with an account manager who has 25 years of sales experience
- Journey to get a $500k+ offer at a public company Curious about people who have gotten offers that pay $500k+. Note that I'm NOT talking about current comp (which can factor in stock appreciation, or some convenient accounting of sign-on bonus). I'm talking about an offer where: Base Salary + target bonus and RSUs vesting each year AT GRANT PRICE
- GCP Customer Engineer (L5) Offer Recruiter told me they are going to offer $233k On Target Earnings, $255k in total stocks (33% front loaded, so ~$84k in the first year), and $24k sign-on bonus. The first year total comp will be ~$341k. This is for a L5 customer engineer (infrastructure modernization) role in Sunnyvale for Select/S
- Databricks do better for users please I was exploring their offering. I was told to link AWS account. Databricks created a whole lot of services on AWS and i am now presented a hefty bill. 1. Certainly Databricks can do better. Clean up the mess they create for the novice users, or give some good option to them. 2. I have few more feedb
- FB research engineer lowballed Asking for a friend who doesn’t have a blind account. He recently got an offer from Facebook for the research engineer in AI role. TC offered was 185k which he thinks was a lowball. Would it make sense for him to negotiate up? He doesn’t have other offers. His profile: 0 yoe, MS from top 3 school.
- Sharing experience: tips for closing home mortgage NOTE: This post is not about: * How to win the bidding war (to me, it's random guessing game) * Predicting the housing market (PS: I try to be mentally prepared for a crash...) * Choosing the best lender / Shopping rate I got a lot of help from the Blind community for my career and house hunting, s
- Are you waiting stock market to crash? Do you have enough in cash to buy? Do you think it happens near future? What signals do you consider? VC investments seems to decrease last year (2016), stocks going below offering price in a half of the year since IPO (snap, ntnx, twilio), snp500 all time highs (should account to inflation and Q
- FAANG prep study buddies Looking for serious study buddies to keep each other accountable (preferably EST). Don't have any interviews lined up yet (though faang recruiters reach out every month). Strategy is to start from scratch: - all of CLRS - CTCI - EPI - Leetcode - DDIA - Grokking the SysDesign Interview Goal is to
- Feeling low after realizing I have been lowballed Edit 2: wow this exploded! The feedback I have received really shows that Blind is indeed a positive place overall! To those saying that the offers are fake: I can say with a high degree of confidence that the Sr. offers that I mentioned here are not fake. I’ve talked to multiple people to understan
- Leetcode Premium I have about two weeks of prep left before starting interviews. Would anyone be willing to rent their Leetcode premium account for $20 a month? I would only work on the locked premium questions, as I have my main account for the others. There has to be someone out there who recently got an offer an
- vote Google v Amazon v Microsoft offer retro These offers are all for the Atlanta area. I wanted to share my experience with others. Amazon: (L5) 160 base, 75 RSUs with the 5/15/40/40 vest Y1: 275k Y2: 270k Y3/4: 245k Experience: Lots of pressure with short offer deadlines, but I didn't accept and ended up being able to renegotiate later for
- Evaluate Offers: Google vs. TikTok (ByteDance) vs. Wayfair Hi Everyone, Been at Wayfair for 2.5 years in Account Management/Sales, and loved my first year in the role - heavily client facing (less admin/tactical work) where I was constantly meeting with other clients and building relationships (my biggest strength) yet we went thru a restructure and my ro
- Engineer vs Sales TC I always see the threads asking for TC / Roles advice and the TC offered by FANG and big tech companies. Rarely or never see sales TC questions. Anyone can give insight into what TC looks like for sales...at MSFT, Google, FB, or even start ups. Im in account management - strategic accounts. TC: 16
- Fired after IPO to hire cheaper resource? A friend joined just before IPO. After ipo, she was fired in 3 months citing performance reasons. Don't think she was that bad at work, but not too sure. Think they fired to hire 2 new SDEs instead, who are now cheaper because of post ipo stock price? Do managers account like that: fire expensive re
- Robinhood Account security Hello, I recently opened an account in Robinhood. One fine day I wake up in the morning (ironically on the Robinhood IPO day) I received an email that my account is locked. So here I am, unable to login and on top of that absolutely unable to contact customer service. As all options are after loggi
- Why do people go for savings account instead of checking? I know that savings account give higher apy which is like 1.70 for most of the banks today. That makes sense if you have lot of money like for 50k you will get $850 but there are checking account bonuses that can give the same amount like citibank . Is it because of the compounding interest that you
- vote Offer Evaluation Dropbox IC3 vs Twitter Senior Thanks Blind for motivating me to interview with all the big TC numbers! Trying to decide between these two offers in the Seattle region. Both roles are full remote. Twitter seems to have an extra 10 to 15 days off every year compared to Dropbox from talking to the HMs. Dropbox IC3: 242k/15%/606k
- Evaluating an Offer I have an offer from a smaller company: it's a 10% base salary increase from what I make now, and the same number of RSUs as I currently have. Microsoft's ESPP discount and 401(k) match add up to exactly the difference in base pay (pre-tax vs. after-tax accounted for). How would you approach evalu
- Google Associate Account Strategist Salary I recently got offered a job from #Google as an Associate Account Strategist. However, the pay is slightly lower than my current role at Amazon (which I am extremely unhappy in). 2 questions: 1. What is the pay for an average Associate Account Strategist at Google? Glassdoor data seems to be all ov
- MS Contract v/s Pinterest Full time I'm interviewing with several companies right now, and most of them are for full time roles. I have an offer for SWE L4 from Pinterest for around 170K CAD$ base, with 235K USD RSUs over 4 years and variable stock bonus up to max 165K USD. I also have a 12 month contract offer from MS for 100CAD$ / h
- vote Amazon L6 vs Snap L6 SWE IC role. Seattle/remote. Not currently at Amazon; offer is for boomerang. Amazon L6 (Senior) TC: 540k first two years, 480k afterwards (not accounting for potential raises or additional RSU. Also not assuming any stock appreciation) Snap L6 (Staff) TC: 600k (waiting for breakdown) Considerati
- ISO stock options got doubled I joined a FinTech startup early December 2021 as a Data Scientist. In the offer letter, it was mentioned that I will get 9k stock options (ISOs), however, today I got the carta account setup, and I see that I have 18k stock options offered to me with the same vesting period as mentioned. What migh
- In hindsight TC: MSFT/AMZN vs Uber/Lyft I remember in the last few years we saw great TC offer from unicorns like Uber/Lyft, mostly from large RSU grants. Then after IPO it lost half the value. In the meantime Amazon and Microsoft stock value has shot up year after year. So in hindsight and taking into account stock price movements, di
- Have Fb/g offers kept up with rising stock prices? Title. Someone who got a 350k offer in 2016 is likely seeing 425k comp (just from initial grant assuming 50% rise that FB and Google stock prices have seen). However, if one gets the same level offer now, she is not likely to get 425k. The offer is likely still 350k - - that is it does not take into
- When do you get your Apple RSUs assigned? I joined Apple on 1/18 (exactly 1 month ago) this year and had signed the offer letter in end of October, but haven’t received the email to activate my stock account yet, neither any communication about the RSUs and joining bonus (we receive pay today and was expecting the bonus to show up since the
- link Couchbase going IPO, how to participate? Just heard this news. Article says Couchbase is going to debut at $3B but with competitors like MongoDB at $20B and Snowflake at $100B, it's almost certain that we are going to see the stock go up very fast. I missed both Mongodb and Snowflake trains, but really don't want to miss this one. I have e
- Roll over 401k? I transferred from Amazon to Microsoft. I have a pretty substantial 401k saved up in vanguard. Microsoft has the fidelity accounts for their 401k, but I’m not sure if the offering is any better. Obviously I’m contributing to get my match, but I’m debating whether I should roll over or not. Does anyo
- link Long shot: Twitter account stolen My Twitter account was stolen. I'm not sure how. It's now in use by a different person, in a different language, with all of tweets deleted. It should be really clear it's not the original owner. I found out about the compromise because I got a suspicious login attempt email. I tried contacting s
- Hello everyone, I am currently a CDR /BDR for a technology company and currently looking to become an enterprise account executive. I am very nervous going in the a AE role, but definitely up for the challenge. How has the transition been for others. This company offers great pay and benefits with lots more upside.
- 401K or not ? My employer doesn’t offer 401K match. I have been investing about $500 per month towards my 401K with Transamerica and 100% goes to Vanguard Institutional Target Retirement 2050 Ret Acct. I will have about 10K saved up by the end of the year. Should I max out my 401K and lock up my money till 60 yea
- Cisco benefits I've received an offer from Cisco. While I'm considering this offer, I was wondering if someone can shed some lights on below benefits: 1. What employee discounts are being offered? Such as on Electronics, new car, travel, Auto, etc. 2. Backup childcare - such as any tie-up with Daycare centers? 3.
- vote ByteDance offer (DS Analytics) Got offer from ByteDance as DS Analytics (SQL monkey). I'm a Senior Data Scientist (2 yoe) at a tiny company (using friend's account to avoid being doxxed) and I want to change jobs cuz I only work like 5hrs a week on maintaining existing ML models. There's no room for growth. After interviewing f
- Work Environment for contractors at PayPal Can anyone speak to what the overall work environment is like for contractors who work at PayPal? I'm trying to evaluate an offer I recently received from them for a contract role. Are contractors treated like any other employee, or is there a clear distinction between actual PayPal FTEs and PayPal
- vote How much should somebody with 2 years work experience be paid? Just trying to understand the current market and what makes for a good offer for a software engineer from a top school. (PS: we got acquired by Cisco) Please note that the figures here are for offers in $ value (base + stocks only, no bonus included), not accounting for how much the RSUs are ultima
- Nvidia hardware team recruiter ghosted Asking for a friend who doesn’t have an account. Anyone from Nvidia who can shed light into why some recruiters ghost after following up enthusiastically throughout the process? It’s been a week since the last round interview and recruiter said would get back by last Monday but it’s been crickets s
- Microsoft Level 61 Offer Base - 128K Sign on Bonus - 30K (over 2 years) RSU/Stock award - 130K (4 years) Annual Bonus - 20% max Extra stocks - 16K (over 5 years) Not sure how they work, if someone can explain. I am calculating my avg TC to be around 189K, correct me if I am wrong. Did not account for extra stocks as I don
- DCU membership discount? Was trying to get the 0.5% discount it offers. I was told by the loan agent that I need to deposit my entire paycheck to their checking, which sounds weird to me - I have several other accounts that I set up direct deposit to maintain. How do they even know I am depositing the entire paycheck or not
- Possible Upwork scam? Upwork - freelancing platform commonly used for web dev Basically got contacted by this foreign national saying they need a US citizen as a front man for their work. Claims they can bring in a lot of $$ and I can get a cut of it without doing any dev work. Is it too good to be true, or is it a luc
- AWS On-site Interview East Palo Alto Hi Folks. Reaching out to you all for a question. I recently interviewed for Technical Account Manager Role L5 at East Palo Alto office. I think I did pretty good except 1-2 technical questions. Haven’t heard anything back from the recruiter even after 9 working days(I did follow up few times). No
- tech companies in LA Looking for some advice on jobs/locations Went onsite for an offer at Lyft in Denver and ended up turning them down bc the weather is shit. Similar experience with Box in NY, but I ended up dropping out before the onsite. I’m looking to stay in LA and I think the best 2 companies are Snap & Oracle