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- link Booking.com offer London evaluation Hello, i got offer from Booking.com for the position of core software engineer ( It’s above mid level but below senior engineer ). I am working as senior engineer in HelloFresh berlin. I am also interviewing in Amazon Bloomberg and Reddit. Offer from booking is as follows Base 80k£ / yearly Yearly
- Having a quarter-life crisis I'm 25 and wondering how to achieve the great life some here and on reddit post about having. Started making 140k base with 10k towards masters (studying tech management). Benefits are good with great WLB but no RSU and it had me wondering if I'm missing out. Also stuck in an unhappy relationship a
- From multiple offers to fail every phone screening I got 3 offers about 1.5 years ago. Now I've failed every single phone screening so far. I didn't leetcode but I applied to frontend roles more and real life Java interviews. - Stripe : answered 2 questions and failed - Coinbase: did the components in react but didn't finish in 30 min perfectly -
- Companies with constant pay bands across North America Hey blind, I'm looking to escape my abusive boss and switch to big tech and increase TC while I'm at it. Only problem is I'm in Canada and for some reason US companies think we want to get paid in canadian pezos. It's common for companies to pay 30-40% less in terms of absolute number and our curren
- A warning about Robinhood Stock Original source: Reddit I've been scoping out growth stocks that have been demolished recently to try to find hidden gems, so I decided to look into Robinhood. As bad as their earnings report was recently, there's an even worse badness hiding in their numbers. Even though their revenue for the yea
- Reddit Offer Evaluation Interviewed for TPM position at Reddit in Los Angeles, CA (remote position) and got the offer. After some negotiation, recruiter provided an offer: Base = 180k RSU = 3000 RSUs over 3 years; no cliff Bonus = 45k (30, 15 split for 2 yrs) Recruiter says they are valuing the offer at $10 billion valuat
- vote Did anyone notice the sudden influx of too many bots last night in WSB sub-reddit? Yesterday night, I noticed a sudden jump in the number of bots creating confusion and chaos (one half supporting meme stocks the other against it by supporting other stocks). Some bots started posting disgusting porn in there- I have seen ppl ranting foul words, but it wasn't to this disgusting dark
- Stable / good WLB remote companies for PMs? I’m an older PM (41) working for an east coast SaaS. Homes here are just getting too expensive to survive on my salary. Looking for something that pays well but won’t stress me out and would leave lots of time for side projects. Goal: 350k+ TC (i’m at about 220-240k now depending on bonus and rsu
- link EPIC SHORT SQUEEZE COMING BEFORE GAMESTOP Just as a disclaimer I own a thousand+ shares of $GTII and 100 shares of $GME. This is your opportunity to get in early on an EPIC NAKED short squeeze opportunity. $GTII is trading under $2. There is some incredible due diligence performed by this Reddit user here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GTII/co
- vote 😳 Is buying a condo in SF a scam? I was looking for condo's in San Francisco and am expecting $850k for a 1 bedroom. After crunching the numbers, it would require a 5.5% annual rate of appreciation on the condo for it to make sense to buy instead of rent a place for $2.5k. The reason being is that the opportunity loss of investing
- vote Is index investing over? I’ve been a firm believer in index investing for the last decade. I understand the math and the logic behind it. However, I’m increasingly growing skeptical of it. I’m reminded of the Mark Twain quote: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” I end
- Offer from Microsoft - Customer Engineer, Security Hi all, I’m looking to get some more context on an offer I got from Microsoft. The initial offer is for a Level 61 position as a ‘Customer Engineer, Security’ (formally known as Premier Field Engineer) Offer is: $125k base $5k sign on bonus $30k sign on stock over 4 years ($7.5 per year) TC: $137.
- link Giving back, offer details from Meta, Robinhood, Snap, Stripe, etc Thanks to everyone, all the data and conversations here helped a lot in prepping for interviews and negotiating offers. To show my thanks here is all the data I have from last month's search. - All Seattle offers - Some numbers slightly adjusted for anonymity - Breakdown is base/Yearly RSU/signing/
- Telecom research jobs (TC, etc) Most talk on Blind (or pretty much any other resource, e.g. reddit) seems to be about software engineering and occasionally program/project management. I'm in a somewhat different field - telecommunications, with heavy emphasis on research. Are there similar people out these? Is there a resource/th
- Companies worth interviewing for DS Analytics / Product Analytics / Data Analyst / Smart SQL Monkey? Aiming to balance high TC with good WLB and non-toxic culture. Solid parental leave policy (minimum 12 weeks, ideally 16+) important. Full remote with a Bay Area office is a bonus but I can live with hybrid model. YOE: 7+ TC: $255k at time of grant, $273k based on oct. 2021 stock price ($165k base,
- link Robinhood CEO is the biggest hypocrite of all time Just yesterday, RH CEO: “Retail investors and individuals have felt like they’ve been talked down to. Lots of them felt like they haven’t been taken seriously,” he said. “There’s this term 'sophisticated investor’ that’s been thrown around, so there’s an idea that they’re unsophisticated.” “I thin
- Microsoft New Grad Top Offer w/ Amazon Hi everyone! I'm an upcoming summer intern at Microsoft and an upcoming fall intern at Amazon. I'm really interested in getting a high new grad offer from Microsoft. I've looked on salary sharing threads on Reddit and such. I've found that competing with an Amazon offer in Seattle can get you L60 -
- How “refreshers” work at Amazon Last updated: 7/21/2019 TL;DR: If you sign with Amazon, expect only paltry base raises and no new stock grants until the 5th year even if you get promoted. If you don’t, your TC will actually drop to the bottom of band so that’s a cliff in its own way. What you see in the offer letter is all you’re
- Regrets to avoid in life I am 25 and have started investing in RE and index stocks. I've been in the same company from the start of my career and have learnt alot of new things in the past 5 years both in repect to professional and personal life. I've recently got the courage to cut off some toxic friends (should have done
- First investor in Coinbase, Garry Tan, saw his initial investment skyrocket to $800M Graduated with his BS in '03 after interning at Sun and started working at Microsoft as a PM. His startup journey started when he turned down an offer to be a super early employee (co-founder?) of Palantir (after Peter Thiel even wrote him a $72k check, which was his then L59 salary at Microsoft)
- Microsoft New Grad Max Comp w/ Amazon Hi everyone! I'm an upcoming summer intern at Microsoft and an upcoming fall intern at Amazon. I'm really interested in getting a high new grad offer from Microsoft. I've looked on salary sharing threads on Reddit and such. I've found that competing with an Amazon offer in Seattle can get you L60 -
- Need Referrals | URGENT | Serving Notice Period Hello folks, Hope this post finds you well! I'm looking for referrals to product-based companies. * LC ~ 400 * Strong Areas - System Design (LLD & HLD), DS - Algo, Database Design * ICPC Regionalist 38th rank YOE - 3 years 4 months TC - 35L (27L Base + 2.7L Bonus + Rest RSU) Please drop a commen
- Investment advice / investment discussions First of all, no longer at VMware. At a smaller tech co now that I won’t name yet (need to feel out the culture and see how Blind-risky/risqué it is). I’m in a position as of last week where I’m now able and wanting to start devoting my full financial energy into investments. I am very debt averse
- Need referral for Backend Dev related pos (6 Yrs Exp) India/Singapore/Europe/Canada Hi Everyone I have around 6 Years of work exp. in designing micro-services (APIs) and scalable distributed systems. LeetCode: 500+ Current CTC : 37L Base + 12% Variable + 5L JB + 80K USD RSUs (4 Years) + benefits Offer in Hand : 45L Base and other things are nearly same but company is in banking
- Robinhood shows that no startup darling is safe Really crazy to see it all come crashing down once a tech hype beast meets real world disaster. Not saying that RH is done for, obviously, but a lot of their goodwill has been erased in days. You see this with bigger companies all the time. AirBnB got battered by the pandemic- remember when everyon
- Help me choose... I am a Data Engineer at a startup working remotely. Started looking around the beginning of this year and have below offers in hand. Series B startup 90 employees - remote work (east coast) Title: Software Engineer(Data) Base 160K Options: 25K (4 years) Skillz - remote till mid next year than eith
- 20 companies, 6 Offers MLE Interview Prep AMA Blind has helped me a ton throughout my interview journey! It can be hard to find information for machine learning positions (ie machine learning engineer, applied scientist, data scientist), so I want to share my experience interviewing for ML positions. All roles were primarily for MLE and I am cu
- Prep to offer, perm full remote roles only 5 months ago, after helping my less experienced friend getting into Meta as L4. I decided to give a few companies a try for fun. Little did I know this would make me actually consider a move. Prep ------------------------------------------------- 1-3 LC per day for two to three months. I highly sug
- link Remote companies in Europe/Germany for >100k€ TC Hi guys, 5 YOE, 80k€ TC. Been working fully remote as Software Engineer for SAP in Germany for the last 2 years. Want to take the next step by jumping into one of those top tech companies that: * Offer remote work from Europe/Germany * Have great tech & engineering culture * Can offer at least 100
- vote Should I jump ship from Meta? I'm just going to refer to meta as FB for simplicity. Background: - Working for FB as E4 for around 5mths (company email old on blind). - Received offers from G and FB (L4 & E4), chose FB because offer was much higher (325 TC vs around 250) - Recruiter from G back emailing and offering what I am ea
- Are you a professional android developer that uses an iPhone? Why? Asking because this is me. I am a senior android developer and I’ve used an iPhone for the past 2-3 years. Why? - Because my family and friends all use iMessage and it’s hard to get them to switch. I am aware of beeper, but I’ve been on their waiting list for over a year now. Similar thing for Fac
- What Blind has taught me this year I’ve joined sometime in November 2020. Ever since I was hooked on it. I treat this forum as surrounding myself with people that I aspire to become to make sure I’m always striving for more. The good and the bad: 1. Always thought I was making good money for my age (mid twenties). TC 140k, YOE 4. W
- Meta/FB vs HFT vs Hedge Fund in London - which offer to take? I am struggling to decide between my top three offers, which are for Meta, a Hedge Fund (think Citadel, Jane Street, Two Sigma, etc.) and a London based HFT firm (you'll likely know the name but want to protect my privacy). The offers are: Meta (E5): TC ~£203k (109, $420/4 years, 15% bonus), plus £
- link Stop asking for tech company offer numbers! Read this and thank me! Interested in more of such posts? Sign up with Blind today! https://us.teamblind.com/invite/qs7Kmvaz ----- Annoyed by all the repeated questions about offers on Blind, I went to collate the numbers from the posts I see on Reddit and Blind. I update this list as and when I see compensation d
- link Grubhub has MASSIVE potential for a big payout DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A GUIDE FOR HOW YOU CHOOSE TO INVEST OR THE CAREER DECISIONS YOU MAKE THIS PRESENTATION IS THE REASON I AM BULLISH: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c13f4c6e17ba3aca12b9686/t/618b3d9d89755c08ab3bc41d/1636515230864/Cat+Rock+Capital+Presentation+on+Just+Eat+Takeaway.com+1
- Google vs. Facebook SWE Internship (and new grad) Hi, Background: I interned at Google last summer as a STEP intern. If I intern there again (and do well), I will most likely get a return offer for full-time with no interviews. Also, I am an international student who will eventually need H1B sponsorship after OPT expires. Additionally, I don't know
- link Post FIRE Life: Notes to self for a meaningful life in 2022 Almost a month late in posting this New Year Resolution, but better late than never. TC: 0 (Financially Independent / Retired Early) My FIRE post: https://www.teamblind.com/post/sqhzju14 Context: I've begun trying out early retirement and have been on a break for nearly an year now. Although I've
- Wonderful experience with a Recruiter Phase I: Interview - I applied online for a senior data scientist role at a large healthcare company in Minneapolis. An internal recruiter directly set me up for a phone interview with the hiring manager. I did well and they scheduled an onsite within 4-5 days. I eventually got the offer within a co
- SWE Interview journey, offers, rejects, tips. Warning: long post. TL;DR; at the bottom. (*In Blind mobile app, only the first half of contents are shown because the post is too long. The second half has been added in the comments section. There is no issue reading this in desktop browser from teamblind website.) I started prepping for intervie
- link Thank you blind. My incredible success story. Warning. This is going to be a very long post. Feel free to ignore most of it and just scroll down for offers if that's all you care to see. I've fudged the numbers slightly for the sake of anonymity but they are more or less accurate. A few months ago I made this post and promised to follow up if
- 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.
- How rx6800xt can beat rtx3080? Nvidia invested 2.8 bils in while AMD spent 0.5bils in R&D? 🤷🏻♂️ Should I buy AMD stock instead? Engineers at AMD are so much more efficient?
- 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