The work life balance is pretty chill, and people are pretty nice.
Senior management, including the CEO, are pretty uninspiring. Morale, culture, pay/benefits continue to get worse since the Salesforce acquisition. People act nice, but there is a decent amount of passive aggression that goes around.
Fully remote, growing revenue, about to IPO again, sick logo, not working with people who are #grind 24/7, nice swag, recognizable name on the resume, funny word, I like purple, above average looking girls and boys, big laptops, no zoom bullshit (google meet for the win), pto, slack YOE: 3 TC: 220k...Read more
I love Slack but it’s been disappointing as a business and as a service. 1. No new features. 2. Video chat quality has never been improved. 3. Comes with app integrations but they don’t generate revenue. 4. have to keep the software cheap in order to be competitivite. 5. Can’t even stand out as a W...Read more
Slack market cap - 18bn on 400mil revenue Shopify markte cap - 36bn on 1.2bn revenue Atlassian market cap - 34bn on 1.1bn revenue Twilio market cap - 18.3bn on 754m revenue Twitter is cheap with 29 bn on 3bn revenue
Is Splunk a better buy at 27.7b over Slack for Salesforce? Splunk market cap is 26.4b, with 2.4b in revenue. Slack is at 700m revenue. #splunk #salesforce
Have onsite for Uber and first round with Slack next week for PM positions. I would be really grateful if somebody can share what these companies look for about when evaluating candidates. I’m also trying to figure out what slack cares more about as it’s Northstar metric: the number of active user...Read more
Notion has seen huge growth in users, revenue and their product overall, and went from $2B to $10B in valuation so far. Have an existing offer to join them with a big equity component. Curious how folks are thinking about them as Slack was a undersell honestly and Asana are already at that $25B mar...Read more
Dropbox has approximately 500 million total users and 11.9 million paying customers, giving them a conversion of 2.38% and an annual revenue of approximately $1.3 billion. The average revenue from a paying customer is $109. But if you take Slack, which has 4.4 million daily paying customers out of ...Read more
IXL Learning laid off nearly all of education.com's San Mateo staff, after recently acquiring the company in Nov. They did this when IXL is losing money and education.com's revenue is up 8x. The reasoning was "incompatible delivery approach" since IXL is super hierarchical and controlled by its CEO...Read more
A fun thought exercise based some research, some musings, and a lot bit of intuition. Facebook buys AIC to diversify revenue outside of ads ServiceNow will be bought by Microsoft or IBM Microsoft will buy Atlassian and Slack Amazon will buy a driverless car company or Lyft eBay will start downs...Read more
Oh my. He’s never led a company before and now is our CEO. Is there actually any path out of this spiral 😔 Even the latest “interview” https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/12/22/how-rebellion-defense-the-1-billion-military-ai-startup-hyped-by-silicon-valley-wound-up-in-a-nosedive/ was hype...Read more
My entire team at Cloudera got laid off today from IDC and US including manager and VP. Apparently it was an RnD team building product ground up which wasn’t generating any revenue. I joined Cloudera around 4 months back. I was working as a Staff Software Engineer (Frontend) and have total 8.2 YOE....Read more
Hi All, Can anyone provide me with a referral to Stripe, Coinbase, DocuSign, Airbnb, or Notion? I’m specifically looking to apply for sales operations role. I have 10 yoe in Sales Operations/Revenue Operations working for exclusively SaaS technology companies, made a shift last year to consulting ...Read more
Assume that I have a side project with some monthy active users and I may or may not generate revenue. Given this, at what point of time can this side project be considered as having "startup" experience? Is founding a startup considered "official" only if you incorporate it / have employees etc? O...Read more
Hi Guys I am now Applications Engineer in Renesas for HW/SW co-design over 3YOE. Due to COVID, our group revenue drops and I am worried about the job security. Request referrals for SDE role here, thanks a lot! TC:180k #software #microsoft #slack #paypal #facebook #twitter #dropbox #amazon #Atlas...Read more
Hi Bilnders, I work as a Data Engineer in a Healthcare Startup, Just a couple of hours back I was informed by the manager that Q2 company revenue is way below expectations and management planning for workforce reduction. I guess I probably gonna get fired. Please refer me. TC:- 102K Yoe:- 2yea...Read more
This is the answer by ChatGPT. Any thought? It's difficult to create a definitive tier list for tech companies since different people may have different criteria and opinions on what makes a company "tier 1" or "tier 2." However, here's a rough ranking of some of the top tech companies based on fac...Read more
Hi All, Can anyone provide me with a referral to Tesla, DocuSign, Google Cloud, Adobe or AWS? I’m specifically looking to apply for sales operations role. I have 5 YOE in Sales Operations/Revenue Operations Also open to referrals at healthcare companies #referrals #salesforce #tech #sales #opera...Read more
I turned in my resignation. It was seemingly all good. The company put me thru hell and I (and our revenue numbers) struggled to tread water so I’m glad to be done. But then, I $H¡+ you not…. My manager Slacked me and then immediately deleted a message, so insane and out of character I could barely...Read more
Hey everyone, I got notice from my employer yesterday and am actively looking for new product roles. My title was Sr. Product Manager (titles are inflated at less developed companies, I know), but I've worked in product at wide range of companies like fintech, manufacturing software, statistical mo...Read more
Joined GS as a Product Manager in a new revenue generating division approximately a year back. Recently got an offer from a startup for TC of 84 LPA (73 base + 11 bonus). Will GS match this offer? Current TC: 53 (45 base + 8 bonus) YoE: ~8 yr Additional data points: 1. I am the only PM on the team...Read more