The work life balance is good; co-workers are usually solid.
Poor product leadership and engineering leadership; sinking ship…they don’t care about our customers or creating a solid product; the app it’s been going downhill for years
Have an offer on table from a small start up about 150 people. Been around for 12 years and have 300 million in total funding, based in Bay Area. Currently late stage series G. I like the team and company everyone highly educated and seems like they want to IPO in a few years. Good leadership with e...Read more
Base: 205K Options: 15000 per year at a strike price of $1.05 and current value $2.50 (4 year vest with 1 year cliff) About the company: 90M total funding across two rounds. Current valuation (assumption) ~300M This is the first time I am considering a startup offer so I would like everyone’s tho...Read more
Title says it all, passed hc, matched team, gave them competing offers from Apple and a few other companies, recruiter says working with comp committee last week, haven’t heard back for a few days. Is this normal?
Please help me make this decision, I feel like it should be easy but I'm having a hard time. I have $0 in the bank. I have a side business which I'm passionate about, but it barely makes money, so I have to find a job. I'm considering two offers. 1. A startup I'm really interested in. The people s...Read more
YOE: 2 Level: Software Dev Engineer I (assuming this is their lowest, I'm a little insulted? I got higher with every other company including Amazon) Base: 130k Stock: 40k vested over 3 years Incentive plan: 10% of the base Sign-on: 13k (so 10% of the base too) 401k matching: 6% Location: north V...Read more
I'm on my way to promotion. Really hoping for this year, but if not then has to be next year. Manager really likes me and values my work but company is cheap. Performance review cycles are at end of the year. But I like where I am and my role and company and geographic location. How can I play thi...Read more
Hi blinders, I interviewed at Meta for an E5 position and negotiated with the recruiter up until Friday where I verbally accepted the offer and reviewed the final numbers on the portal. However when I log into my career profile I see: “We're working on your offer documents. You'll receive an email ...Read more
Mandatory "WeDash" starts from next year. You need to dash once a month. WILL BE TRACKED IN PERFORMANCE REVIEWS!! What the actual fuck? I didn't sign up for this, there was nothing in the offer letter/job description about this. TC: 400K
At 1 yoe I got ~300 TC offer at apple + 100k sign on. Now after a year i looked at Apple internal perf review posts here and see so many with 1-3 yoe with similar TC after and even before perf review. I realize I'm not even a little special😞 Got garbage review and bonuses relative to them and TC b...Read more
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...Read more
i just receieved an email from my facebook recruiter that my profile is being submitted for a review with the director’s and vp’s what does that mean. can someone from Facebook shed some light on it. Update:- received offer after the follow up.
I'm a working parent and reading treacherous reviews for snowflake WLB. Is flexible hours a thing? Right now I leave work at 4 and finish up in the evenings. Considering an offer. TC 200k L5
So I'm in the post interview anxiety phase after an onsite at FB and trying to understand the process and also want to write this out for others who are in my situation. After talking to my recruiter and after browsing through the posts here in blind, I think here are the steps. (Q1==>;) Can some
One of my friend got a response from the recruiter that the recruiter has got all the feedback and waiting for getting it reviewed. They will follow up once the results are in. When they say review does it mean HC review? Results over here means HC decision? what do you think is it Offer or reject...Read more
I'm having a baby early next year and I'm worried about the impact on my career. My boss is young, doesn't have a family. I told him I'm planning to take maternity leave next year and now I'm worried that it will negatively impact my year end review/bonus/refreshers even for this year. I'm also not ...Read more
Hi, Click bait! Just kidding… but ya it’s long post. TLDR; If I can go from $67k in TC to $330k in a span of 6.5 years. You can too! I wanted to share my career history in an attempt to show others who didn’t start out in FAANG to not be discouraged. Our career is a marathon not a race. Just bec...Read more
Hi there, I have a verbal offer and expecting a formal offer from Cruise for an IC4 level role in Engineering. Tried to read some reviews here and I am confused if its specific engineering teams that have serious burnout or is it company-wide? I read that the Engineering culture is toxic in some wa...Read more
Google Hardware recruiter keeps me in the loop saying “we are reviewing your application” (without me asking). I got another offer recently and asked the recruiter if we can facilitate things after telling about another offer. Have I spooked them because they are still early in the process and I al...Read more
Recently signed an offer at Netflix and the recruiter mentioned an annual comp review and not to worry about my recurring, citing it was gonna go up. How do these annual comp reviews work and what percentage does it increase your base by. TC: 250K Y1, 221 Y2 YOE: 0 #netflix
Can I still negotiate with FANG companies after agreeing with their verbal offer? I have another competing offer from another FANG coming up. ANOTHER question: if one FANG has given me their written offer, meaning SVP review is done, waiting for my acceptance, then a competing offer comes up with h...Read more