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Startup VS
- vote FIRE vs Startup? Which will you pursue in life? TC: 111k
- vote Google vs Series A startup? Hi all, Have 2 offers in hand: - Google E5 at ~500k/year - Series A startup with 70m evaluation at 180k cash + 0.1% equity Does it even make sense to consider startup in these conditions? #google #startup
- FAANG Vs Startups I have never worked for a modern day tech startup, but I have worked for FAANG. I am in final stages of interviews for Glovo and a few other tech start ups. I will be in finance I'd like to know about a few things, and please compare them to FAANG in context of Finance function (analysis/planning n
- vote Startup VS Google Series B, 185000 + 0.06% , great team, great product, revenue just started but very promising, worth the risk ? Company valuation at 300m yoe: 6 current tc: 400-500k (could be more or less in the future given the volatile stock market) #equity #startup
- vote Startup 200k vs Amazon 600k. Should I join? Hey Blinders! Got an offer from Amazon L6: 600k Current role- Pre Series A Startup: 200k + 1% equity. (0.4% already vested) Startup pros: - great wlb, only have to work 20 hours a week. - equity has a potential - lots of learning opportunities. - in the perm process (not necessarily a pros but
- vote Uber staff vs Series B startup Hello fellow blinders, I have two offers (India) need help in selecting the best one. 1. Uber Title: Staff engg TC: 1.6C (60% base (85-90L), rest perf/bonus + stocks) 2. Series B startup (sorry cant name it) Title: Principal Engg TC: 110L Base, 10 JB + 80L worth ESOP over 4 year
- vote Netflix vs Series B Startup Current TC: 550k Series B startup valued at $800million raising series C soon with 3x expected growth. VCs are Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Bloomberg Beta, and more (these are not tier 1 VCs right? No Sequoia, a16z) Salary: 200k Equity: 500k over 4 years TC: 325k TC (with 3x growth): 575k Seem
- vote Amazon Canada vs Seed stage startup Bangalore Amazon Canada (SDE 2): Base: 155k Bonus: 75k+60k (Y1+Y2) RSU: 2+6+16+16 TC: ~238k Start-up (Senior engineer): Base: 60LPA Bonus: nothing promised ESOP: ~0.4% of the company (current valuation ~15M) TC: hard to evaluate Current TC: 65LPA
- Startup vs Big Tech Considering joining a startup vs big tech. The goal in the end is to get as rich as possible. Not really sure what meaning of life is or what I want to do, so right now my "goals" are limited. Is it better to join startup work 60+ hour weeks or join tech work 40 hours a week spend rest of time leetc
- Help evaluate risk vs reward (Apple vs Startup) Hey all, Currently am an ICT3 PD (Product Design Engineer) at Apple with 4YOE. TC is ~225 (150 base/75 RSU annually currently), and I'm evaluating an offer from a Series D robotics/hardware startup. They're offering ~275TC (185 base/90 in *options* annually). Now the base increase is great, and on
- vote Google vs Startup (India) Assumming TC is same, which one would be better choice for career? Work has been shit till now, never worked on distributed systems or handled concurrency. YOE - 3.8 Current TC - 32 LPA #engineering #software #swe
- vote Amazon vs Startup ! ( Posting from friend’s account): I have two strong offers, which one you choose? Amazon offer , (M1, potential for M2 in next of years) -TC 730K for first 2 years (little low with current stock price). Startup (VP position), series C, ~500 people, $100M ARR, - TC, 530K for first 2 years and pa
- vote Startup vs Corp evaluation Hi Blind, Can you help me figure out if this is a good move? 10Yoe LCOL remote Current (not Nutanix): Pros: great company, great WLB, team and leaders. Cons: many years at the company, bored with the work I’m doing, no promo in the next year+, not motivated to innovate any more.. weak career grow
- vote Google L3 vs Startup vs Amazon SDE - 2 (India) Hi blind community, I have offers from 3 companies - Google (L3) - 25L base + 3.75 perf bonus + 76K$ RSU + 5L Joining bonus ~ 54L Amazon (SDE 2) - 42 base + 20L first year bonus + 15L second year + 20 RSU ~ 64L Startup - 45 base + 3L perf bonus + 2L joining bonus + 7.5L ESOPs ~ 50L I am more incli
- vote Startup vs Established Company Hi all, I have two offers and am wondering which would be a better pick for early career? Offer A: Series B startup Product seems really cool and they raised 80M in funding last round. Work would likely be more exciting and they have a peak of 1000 tps. TC: 90k + $10k options/year Offer B: Esta
- vote Google Offer vs Startup Need help deciding which offer to take! Startup has already done Series C funding in the last year and has been generating net revenue. Google Downleveled to L3: TC: $175k - $135k base / $40k RSU grant (for first 2 years) Startup SDE2: TC: $210k* - $170k base / $40k ISO grant Startup has 2 perfo
- vote Netflix vs Coinbase vs Series A startup Netflix: 450K all cash Coinbase: 206k base + 10% bonus on base(20k) + 175K equity + 51K sign-on Series A startup: 200k base + 14000 options(0.1% of 100MM valuation) YOE: 7 + MS TC: 🥜 #engineering #software #swe
- Health tech Startup vs Amazon Hi everyone! So I got an offer from this health tech startup that’s been around for about 6 years now. I really like the manager and the other person on the team. I also got an offer from Amazon which was an intense interview! I was wondering what would be the better pick? Is working at Amazon as ba
- vote $10B valuation startup vs. FAANG offer eval Offer from (Reddit, Notion, Figma – actually have two of these but the best is) for 550k TC at current valuation. FAANG offering 400k (will continue to bump this up with competing FAANG offers) Current TC: 290k YOE: 4
- Startup vs FAANG Currently working at a startup with 1.5 YOE and wondering if it’s worth it? Learning a lot and definitely have a lot of steam (about to enter series B) It’s in the northeast so not crazy expensive living conditions but FAANG has some crazy packages Just trying to get some opinions? #engineering #s
- vote Instacart vs Google vs Startup Trying to think through this decision and it hasn’t been clear to me what to do. Curious what blind folks think Instacart - 475k TC, L6 Google - 360K TC, L5 Series C - 200-220 base, .04%/4 years, sequoia backed Series A - 200 base. 0.35%/ 4 years, lesser known VC Pretty clear to me that Google
- Google vs startup vs keep looking I'm currently working at a startup that I believe will fail in about 12 months(I was one of the first 5 employees, 130k 1% equity, fully responsible for algs/data - I believed in the dream and stayed there for 3 years ), and currently I have 2 offers: An offer from Google (L4, 150 base, 250 stock o
- vote LinkedIn vs Adobe vs Startups Hello awesome folks of Blind Need your help in evaluating the following offers that I have. Need your suggestions on 2 points. 1. Which one should I pursue? 2. Are the offers good? Can I negotiate more? PS: Coinbase, Bloomberg London, and Google are in process. YOE: 3.5 years Current TC: 38L #e
- Facebook vs Google vs Startup Got 3 offers. Location greater Seattle area. Current tc 170k. Facebook ic4 ds product analytics yr1 tc projection ~260k A startup (real nice people and recruiter) BI role for ~250k Google product analyst role (still in team matching, $$ unknown) Due to some family reason, I need 100% remote work ti
- Startup VS Faang Folks who have worked in early stage startup vs FAANG companies, how do you compare both in terms of learning, career growth, compensation and WLB?
- FAANG vs Startups FAANG vs Funded-Startups, what do you prefer and why?
- Google vs startup I’m currently trying to make a decision between going to google or a startup and I like to get some opinions. I’m really excited/passionate for the work at google and I can focus on one specific area. I also think the work is going to be chill since I already have experience in it. The hiring manag
- link Amazon "Buy with Prime" vs Shopify and other checkout startups. Amazon announced the "Buy with Prime" feature today. https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/21/23035192/amazon-buy-with-prime-initiative-shipping-benefits SHOP is down 10% today to pre-pandemic levels. Is this a $SHOP buying opportunity? Amazon has other problems with merchants that Shopify solves, but as
- Director at startup vs Sr. Manager at larger company I have been a director at a startup for last year. Given it is a startup, it is wearing me down. I know I will grow and can become sr. Director here in the next cycle but questioning if it is worth staying. I have full confidence I will do well with system programming but LC will be challenging if i
- Startup vs FAANG I currently make 150,000 at a series B startup with 10,000 shares (something like 0.01%) over 4 years. I have 3 yoe and I'm wondering if it's worth staying at a startup given that I'm not at a level where I can receive a lot of private shares. Originally I was planning to wait until I hit the 1 year
- Intuit vs startup for immigration Hoping to receive offer from intuit as well as a Series E startup(profitable) The startup is paying more money compared to Intuit but Intuit has presence worldwide and the startup only has an office in India outside US. The startup hasn’t filed that many H1b visas but they are open to file next ye
- vote startup vs amazon new grad finished bachelors from a tier 1 school, international; already accepted an SDE 1 offer from amazon. Just received another offer from a Series A startup. Amazon offer - 116k, 37k, 86k (5%, 15%), 3.5k (relocation) Startup offer - 140k + 5k sign-on, 0.1% equity (stock options), would be work
- Amazon Canada vs Seed stage startup Bangalore Amazon Canada (SDE 2): Base: 155k Bonus: 75k+60k (Y1+Y2) RSU: 2+6+16+16 TC: ~238k Start-up (Senior engineer): Base: 60LPA Bonus: nothing promised ESOP: ~0.4% of the company (current valuation ~15M) TC: hard to evaluate Current TC: 65LPA
- vote Indian Startup vs Facebook London Currently working for a well funded Sports startup. I really love building the product but at the same tjme, I was trying to interview for Facebook since a year and finally got the opportunity. Fb has been my dream and aligns with my ultimate goal of moving to US for a higher TC. Though I screwed up
- FAANG vs Startup Dilemma + Risks I'm 22 years old and about to graduate from college. I have a huge dilemma. I've been working at a startup since September part-time (20 hrs a week) and I was the first technical hire (other than the founder). As a result, I've been deeply involved in pretty much every technical aspect of the produ
- Amazon vs Startup I have an offer from Amazon and Startup as an SDM. Amazon TC - 350K and Startup TC - 325K but still in series B. I am not too much worried about WLB as it’s not that great today. Other than that, any pointers on which one would make sense? I personally feel equity growth will be more for startups
- vote Startup vs. Amazon I work at a small startup, 10 people, where I do various things from coding ML proof of concepts to frontend/backend webdev to devops to sales. I'm getting loads of experience, and I get to interact with lots of small-medium sized company CEOs, but I work about 65 hours a week. I got an offer from
- vote Startup vs apple Otter.AI 220 (base+bonus) and 0.125% of company. Looking for any insights on this series B startup - management; culture; potential; Apple 397 (averaged everything over 4 yrs; not accounting for refreshers) Current TC 360 (with stock appreciation) YOE 3
- vote Brex vs startup? Got the following offers (outside of us): 1. Brex senior. 300k usd /year do your own split. 2. Small start up, valued at 300m and revenue growth of 200% YoY. 181k base. 200k usd stocks/ year. Tc 381k. 3. Small YC start up. Valued at 150m. Huge potential, but currently near zero revenue. 164k b
- Google staff vs startup Have offer from startup as 20th employee -250k base + 0.5 equity. Google staff interview coming up. Should i bother giving the google interview or take the startup offer. Startup is funded by top VCs and has great founders. Edit: current tc : 500k
- vote Google vs Startups I am a new grad I received a PPO offer from Google as well as full time offers from startups The base salary offered at the startups is much higher (more than 1.5x of Google) But I like the work culture At Google and I really liked the work I had during my internship. Plus my seniors are advising
- Startup vs Amzon Hello Blind. I have two offers both in EU. Context: I have a bachelor in business and master in ds. I just graduated and I am trying to figure out what to do with my life. In the future I would like to try to switch to ds / swe and give it a try but I am not 100% certain about this choice yet. I p
- Startup vs Amazon I have an offer from Amazon, 175k TC, and an offer from a startup with 145k TC. I think that my work life balance will probably be better at the startup because it's late stage and mission-driven, has some good and reliable customers who seem to really like the product. I also have some side project
- FAANG vs Startup vs MBA? A bit background about me: - 6 years of experience in Data Science - working in a mid-sized tech (just got acquired by big tech) as a senior/tech lead - no experience in big techs, past employers all small to mid sized companies I can see three directions of my future career: 1. Join big techs
- Pros and cons of FAANG vs startup Pros and cons of joining FAANG vs startup as an engineer. Feel free to distinguish between early stage (series A) vs late stage startup (e.g., Lyft, Stripe, Airbnb). Particularly interested in how this helps accelerate the path to becoming a competent senior software engineer and maximizing TC in t
- Google vs Startup Hi all, I'm choosing between two offers. One is From Google and another is from a C series startup. Google offered 350K total and startup offered 300K total but said they are going to raise fund soon and it would 'hopefully' see the value stock option triple and that would make the total become some
- vote FB vs Verkada vs seed startup Hi, Currently had a couple of offers but consider these three, can you guys share some thoughts? Thanks YOE: 6 (Swe) FB: TC 320k + 100k signon Verkada: 200k + 700k iso Seed startup (insurance related, founders background are pretty good): 200k + 0.5% equity
- FAANG vs Startups How should I choose? FAANG pays good money but startups are risky and exciting at the same time. There’s a chance of getting into a real bad team at faang. But startups too can go either ways. I want to optimize for my growth and learning. Can I do it at FAANG? I’m specially scared of big companies
- Startup vs google vs Meta vs Amazon I left Meta after a couple of years and joined a startup. The startup is not what I expected and so after being there for a couple of months, interviewing with Amazon and google and also looking into the option of going back to Meta. What would be your recommendation. No major issues with the start
- Startup vs workday Any suggestions if I should opt for startup (never worked in startup env. - series c/d) or opt for workday . Compensation wise both touching 200k [total compensation]