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- PayPal DS promotion Doing DS job for 2 years in this team but only sr analyst title. no promotion in the team for anyone in past two years. TC 140k. Total YOE 3. Is this reasonable pay? Time to move?
- Good companies to join as senior or staff engineer Pretty bored now with PayPal. I joined Venmo about 6 years ago and whole org merged with PayPal. All early stage engineers are out or on the way out and now I want to head out as well. What are some good companies with work life balance (40 hours or less), offer remote and can pay close to 450-500 a
- vote Atlassian vs Sharechat vs PayPal Lead Data Science role offered YOE: 8.5 years Location: India Current TC: 45 LPA Sharechat: TC: 81 LPA 60 Base, 10% Variable, 60 LPA stocks over 4 years Refreshers: Only during promotion and high rated performing employees Atlassian: TC 80.5 LPA 50 Base, 15% Variable, 120k USD stocks over 4 years
- Aiming for MTS 2 with 8 yoe Hello #paypal folks. I have an interview lined up with PayPal and my recruiter mentioned that I will be considered for T25 only given my experience. I was wondering if PayPal categorizes level based on yoe? If you were able to negotiate level, could you please share some pointers? Recently promoted
- PayPal SE2 to SE3 Hi Bliners, I have 4.3 YOE and joined PayPal as SE2,Not sure if they downleveled me... Can someone let me know how much time it takes for promotion to SE3 and how much hike they give. TC 30
- How should I prep for SDM interviews? New SDM here recently promoted at Amazon. Got only bananas, how should I prepare for SDM interviews for companies like Stripe, Paypal, Msft, FB?
- T25 eng in paypal to L64 in microsoft ? I recently got promoted to T25 in paypal, and in interview process with microsoft, is L64 possible ? YOE : 10.5 years Location : India. Base : 43LPA Bonus : + 10% Unvested stocks : ~60k ( huge decline by 70% downfall )
- vote Microsoft or PayPal? Hello all, I have offers from Microsoft and PayPal, and would appreciate your help in deciding one. Yoe: 7 Microsoft(Teams) TC: 270k(including annual bonus target) Location: Redmond Level: L63 PayPal(Credit) TC: 250k - initial offer by recruiter and is very flexible about negotiation. Might as
- Paypal software engineer 3 compensation What does compensation for paypal se3 or level 24 look like? I was offered 127k base pay with 30k in stocks. Seemed very less. Got promoted this year
- PayPal hikes, India 1. Does PayPal give good bump in base salary on promotion from SE3 to MTS1? 2. How long does it take to go from SE3(T24) to MTS1(T25) yoe 4.5 TC 33lpa
- PayPal vs Walmart vs VMware - which is better? Currently Senior Prod Manager T25 at PayPal YOE 13.5 TC - 86 lpa (Base 37, Var 3, RSU 46) INR Good RSU but very slow growth Offers VMWare Role - Product line manager TC - 76 lpa (Base 52, Var 5, RSU 11, retirals 8) Expecting further negotiations, offering promotion from my current level Walmart Ro
- Micromanaged and disrespected How do you deal with managers who micromanage to the point of making you feel anxious about coming into work? I recently got a new position / got promoted and have a stellar track record at PayPal but this new manager is something else...
- vote Offer evaluation: data science, Uber vs Paypal Current tc 140k, yoe 1 Below are the final numbers. Uber L3 base 130k bonus 10-20% rsu 130k / 4 yrs signon 35k => TC 177k not including signon PayPal L4 base 155k bonus 10% rsu 80k / 3 yrs signon 30k => TC 197k not including signon I’m interested in both teams, so would like to know which on
- Joining VMware. Any tips? I suck at office politics. Leaving PayPal for same reason. Any tips to handle office politics better? I dont care too much about promotions or getting credit and just want to not get burned with office politics again. Its fresh start for me so preparing to start on right foot.
- PayPal Director Salary expectation? Currently at Google Hi, I am expecting an offer from PayPal anytime now for a Director (planning) role. This would be T28. What kind of package should I expect? I am at L6 at Google right now. But moving as there is no promotion in sight at Google and I want that Director title on my resume. The PayPal role would give
- (INDIA) Paypal T22 offer + WFH situation ? Got an offer from PayPal university team . What's the WFH situation for next year if anyone knows ? Will paypal make employees come to office if fully vaccinated ? Preferring permanent remote due to family reasons. Do you think the offer is lowball ? What would be promotion cycle to level up to SD
- vote Confused. Help me out guys! Long post warning In 2021 during vacation season I planned to study and apply for jobs I prepared for 50+ days did around 300 LC. Didn't enjoy a single day wasted my vacations days long weekend everything to get into a good firm. I was able to crack phone interviews of most of the companies I appli
- Looking for software engineering manager referrals Laid off from PayPal as a software engineering manager - backend and machine learning. Experience scaling reliable systems. Rated top 10% in 2019, promoted in 2020. Currently in San Jose, open to roles here but also looking for good opportunities to leave the area. Appreciate any leads. TC: op
- How are team change options within PayPal? (Asking for my *spouse* who isn’t on Blind, they are currently Sr PM at Amazon TC 235). They recently got a generous verbal offer (TC 260k) from PayPal for L26 PM in a pretty technical domain. They are excited about the challenge and the team mates / culture all seem great, but some unknowns: 1) wh
- vote Microsoft India vs PayPal India offer evaluation Base: 34 L RSUs: $125k (vested over 4 years) Position: Software Engineer 2 Level: 61 YOE: 6.9 Joining bonus: 5.2 L (paid over 2 years) Perf bonus: 0 to 20% Location: Bangalore I’m worried about the level that they offered. Consider that I perform well this year, do I have a chance of getting promo
- Should I take the offer or stay back? I’ve offer from a company called Marqeta(fin tech startup) -130 base and 25k sign on Current salary at Paypal 115k base and around 100k/3 rsu I’ve 2yrs exp. I’ve a great team at Pypl working on some cool stuff but problem is I’m not getting any hike or promotion which is kinda frustrating. I want
- My Secret 🤫 So it goes like this… I have a Staff engineer as close my friend in the team he is super smart. I wanted to go on vacation but I had lot of stuff in my plate. So me and staff engineer were talking casually I jokingly said wish I could hire some one and go on a vacation. He said I can do that and
- vote Elon Musk a Genius or a Scam Genius Elon has been able to create a good narrative for himself. Founding PayPal when he clearly had nothing to do with their success. Founding Tesla when he cheated people out of the board. Selling Smokes to the public everytime to hype up the value of his share. He always finds some BS to promote everyt
- Looking for referrals for remote or Utah companies Hi blind, I’m have interviews setup for Google in 2 weeks and would love to get interviews scheduled for any of the companies below. Companies must allow remote work or be based it Utah 😁 I am a full-stack SWE, my teams dev ops SME, and I was asked to lead a new team next quarter as their team le
- I like my current job but not TC how much TC jump would it make sense to switch? Yoe: 1.5 (almost 2) TC: 105k Current job is fine. Work life balance is amazing, the work is okay interesting and I am learning. But it does feel like maybe my career is not really growing. I started prepping for interviews 3 months ago. And am going through many loops in the next few weeks. So
- Job switching on L1? Hello Blinders, I am getting an L1 from my employer and a promotion. The problem is I don't enjoy the work. I started prepping system design recently and leet coding to brushup my basic skills. I would like to know if its possible to switch to any product based company like Oracle, servicenow, pay
- Sr. Manager Interview type for Amazon / Msft/ slack / PayPal Worked as a Sr. Engineering manager and promoted to a director for a product development company in Washington DC. Experience of around 15 years with like 12 years coding and architecture, 3 years people management experience, during these 3 years have been involved in design and architecture specia
- AMA: Failed 5 onsites No motivation to work or leetcode. Probably not good for software engineering :( Edit 1: How do I motivate myself? Should I keep preparing for interviews or completely focus on work? Edit 2: I have always been bad in whatever I do. Didn't study well for IITs/NITs and studied from a no name colleg
- PayPal offer evaluation Posting on behalf of my spouse Paypal offer evaluation Level 23, SWE 2, SAN JOSE 140k base Bonus 10% - 50% as cash and 50% as stocks RSUs 50k - vesting annually over 3 year period Sign on 25k They mentioned refreshers will be at least 50% of initial grant of RSUs . How true is this? Master in CS ,
- Retention-against-Resignation-at-Paypal[India] Hi, I am a T23(software engineer 2) in India , due to average pay(compared to industry) as well as tech and team... I decided to resign from Paypal within 8 months , after I informed my manager he said he will speak to HR as he cannot let me go at this point of time ,taking down the details he said
- Tired of not being recognised Hi Blind community, Have been thinking about it a lot but couldn’t find answers or explanation about why this happened. Asking for your help/suggestions To start with , I lost my offer from PayPal and Uber as a Data Scientist in March 2020. And ended up accepting Walmart (low pay and at a lower le
- Is now the time to make a change!? Hello, Looking to get some advice on some what could potentially be my next career move. I have about 10 years of sales experience. Been with my current employer for 6 years. 5 years in management, promoted many times and have experience in multiple departments and helped my previous company durin
- [India](De)-motivational post: Lot of rejections Just documenting all my rejections and probably few successes... Summer internship(3rd year): Amazon: cleared OA, rejected after final round JPMC, Goldman Sachs, : cleared OA, rejected in first round Microsoft: couldn't clear OA Kronos: Cleared OA, rejected at some stage... Future first (Business a
- Tech vs Finance opportunities TC 130k / Yoe 4 / Low COL city This year raise got affected by COVID, expecting 150k-160k with next promotion around year end. 4 years of credit risk strategy in non-bank consumer lending with 1 year of people management experience. In two words we build strategies to decide who will get approved f
- Career growth reflection I just wanted to write this out because I have a bit of time…I’ve been self reflecting on what I achieved over the course of 4 years with regards to my software engineer career in the Bay Area. 2 years ago I was a software engineer at PayPal earning 96K TC straight out of college with B.S. in CS. I
- SWE TC across companies, how much NW and growth to beat the TC? TC Display: Top Tier: Pinterest: 450k~600k Stripe: 450k~600k LinkedIn: 450k~600k Facebook: 400k~600k Airbnb: 400k~580k Snapchat: 400k~550k Netflix: 450k+ 1st tier: Uber: 380k~600k Lyft: 380k~480k Slack: 370k~500k Dropbox: 350k~600k Twitter: 350k~550k Google: 350k~500k Apple: 350k~450k Splunk: 350k
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
- best ways to buy bitcoin What is the best way to buy bitcoin? I've heard Robinhood is horrible :(
- Child care isn’t a transmission vector Largest peer-reviewed study, 57,335 child care centers: “No evidence of child care being a significant contributor to COVID19 transmission to adults—finding consistent with previous studies showing lack of assoc btwn school closures & transmission rates” https://twitter.com/nahasnewman/status/1323
- Referrals Hey everyone, looking for referrals I have a Masters degree in CS YOE - 3+ TC - 110k #Uber #Lyft #Dropbox #Microsoft #Netflix #Slack
- Any H4 applicants still waiting for Biometric appointment. Mine was filed in may 2020 and still waiting.
- Facebook WFH Options Hello Facebookers. Are you all allowed to WFH as per news or only some teams allow that? TC: 250k
- vote What kind of worker are you? Let’s face it. Some people in G and F don’t spend that much , especially 5 and 6. If You gave them 10M or 10B, they would live the same life. They just want more money even though they don’t need to spend that much. Some people work for a purpose like Dr. Fauci. He was downplayed but still want to
- link When Trump thought pandemic was going to end by easter.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546
- At what age did you buy life insurance Folks will be 34 soon thinking of getting a life insurance. Have a wife and 2 kids 😀 What age did you folks take one and which one would you folks recommend ? TC : 328k