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- Coinbase v Airbnb v Stripe Refreshers How are Refreshers at all three? Found that CB has ratings 1-5 with initial grant multiplier going above 1x for ratings 3-5. Correct me where I'm wrong CB people. But how do airbnb and stripe compare? Looking at general L5 salaries on Levels for 1yr at company within the past year, CB has the lowe
- Will these companies offer more than FB? I’m currently in the interview process for a new grad swe position. I have a new grad offer from FB for $110k salary, $160k rsu/4 years $65k sign on. I was offered interviews at: Caspar AI Asana Stripe Airbnb Rubrik Robinhood Optiver Trading Cloudflare Confluent Affinity Snap (Application Security
- vote Levels at Stripe/Chime/Plaid Currently L5 at Google. Been here for 4 years and looking to move since I am not growing in my team. I’m talking to a few teams internally but I am interested in joining a few pre-IPO companies to accelerate my growth. I couldn’t find YoE requirements for senior/staff levels at Stripe, Chime and Pl
- Help with offer / negotiating, Indeed, Atlassian, Stripe, Zillow Hello all, Thanks to you fine folks in my referral thread, I have been moving forward with these companies in particular, for full-time remote positions. I have an offer from Indeed, 170k TC 3 years, increasing to 210k on year 4. I anticipate an offer from Atlassian, and I haven't had the virtual o
- NVIDIA Offer NVIDIA initial offer Level: IC5 Base 235 RSU 440 / 4 years YOE: 15 Sounds like stock refreshers are common (usually 20% or more), they don't do bonuses unless they have to match competing offers. Have two competing offers (both startup, both lower TC) as well as onsites with Dropbox and Stripe sch
- vote Post MBA Career I have 8 years of SDE experience (AWS, AMD, Stripe), and 1.5 years of SDM experience (Stripe). I have a Masters in CS and a general MBA both of which are from world top 5 Universities. As I am about to finish my MBA, I recently started applying for the jobs. Just based on the information I gave you
- vote People Manager or Individual Contributor Hi! Which internal position would you recommend to take: A) BI People Manager : Lead a 2-3 person BI team. No change in skill set ( SQL, ETL, Tableau, Python). No change in salary. B) Data Scientist: Chance to learn Data modeling and machine learning on the job. May be 1-3% increase. Current prof
- Is the only way to buy a home in the Bay Area to work at FAANG? Or Microsoft or OCI, or a public unicorn like Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, Square, Pinterest, DoorDash, Twitter, Snap, or a soon to be public unicorn like Robinhood, Instacart, Stripe, etc.? Basically unless you're a founder at a startup that's definitely going to make it, you should be trying to maximize T
- Senior Customer Success Managers in Europe! How much is your annual pay? Any Senior/Enter Customer Success Managers in Europe? How much is your annual pay? My current rate is 68k€ after this year’s raise. Plus 2.5k€ bonus. Workload and WLB are both great esp since I am a new parent. But for 3.5 years I was never promoted and I feel like my salary is too low. I live in Pa
- vote Amazon vs. Google vs. Shopify (offer review + level feedback) Hi all! I am up for a promo at Amazon from L5 to L6 next quarter. I also have offers from Google and Shopify. What are your thoughts? Amazon worth the wait (understanding a promo is not guaranteed)? L4 at Google is a bit of a low ball but might set me up for better success and quicker promo since I
- Tech companies for SWE in Atlanta Currently located in FB Seattle, thinking of relocating to Atlanta. Questions : 1. What tech companies can I look forward to joining over there ? Please only mention companies that can compete with FB in terms of pay. 2. Does FB adjust salary if it's a team change with me being in office in Atlanta,
- Stripe Offer I just received an offer from Stripe for a non-tech role, and the base pay offer seemed ridiculous to me at an hourly rate that would amount to only $63,800 per year. Any idea why some roles might be hourly? I am currently in a salaried position with TC nearly $150,000. Hourly was not at all expect
- Highest paying companies for design roles (especially sign-on) What are some companies that offer really good(~80k+) sign-on bonus for senior design roles? Wife wants to exercise options at her startup so looking for an influx of cash before their next funding round so she saves on AMT tax while exercising? Besides, I joined Instacart when they were valued at
- Solutions Architect salary range I'm looking to explore new jobs outside my current SWE role. Something I find very interesting is Solutions Architect role. Seems to be quite fun specially building up security or ML solutions in real life. I also want to get expose to more customers and real uses cases. What's the salary range fo
- Is bolt checkout worth? I have Bolt L5 offer and I am considering if its worth taking a risk. Risks are : 1. Over valuation of 11-14B wrt ARR of just 60M. This is approx 200x multiplier. 2. I am on H1B. My Current TC is 325K and I have decent WLB 3. With increased valuation, strike price would go higher and more dilution.
- Which offer is the best? I’m looking for WLB, save a lot of money but also have a great lifestyle, low cost of living. Current TC: 230k usd (in SFO) YoE: 7 years Offers: Director of Sales Engineering in Montreal, Canada (payment processing company) base salary: 150k cad RSUs: 100k USD over 4 years (at current price) Bonu
- vote Amazon vs Stripe (Asking for a friend) Location: Dublin, Ireland Amazon: L5 for 3 years; going to be promoted to L6 in the next cycle (March 2022). Promotion TC = 212k - base 122k (incl. on call pay) - annual vesting 90k - pros: love the team, great growth potential as L6 in the org. Have already put in a lot
- Good paying startups I am trying to find list of startups who has competitive pay for mid senior level. I have offers from amazon (sde2) and snap(new grad). I am trying to look for high pay startups which can pay over 250k for 4 yoe! Amazon offer - 235k Snap offer - 178k Current - Grad student LC - 500+ medium hard i
- Fully Remote company with team members in San Francisco Bay Area Google is forcing us to go back to the office starting in April. Need to look for Fully Remote companies with team members in San Francisco Bay Area that are hiring Product Leaders / Product Managers. Any suggestions? * What are your experiences working at the Fully Remote companies, like #brex, #in
- Meta Remote Canada Offer Eval Facebook, Remote, E4 Base: 140k Bonus: 15% RSU: 250k (4 years) Sign on: 10k ~3 YOE Current TC: 175k Current location: Vancouver Have offers from: Instacart (160/90/0), Faire (120/40/20), Coinbase (150/~60/0), and Stripe (135/70/15) Would like to give FB a chance, is there a possibility for a ma
- Highest paying companies for PM? Im a PM with 11YOE, 8 as a PM, 4 years as a manager. Skillsets - Platform, Data/ML Domains - Fintech, Data. Worked in B2B as well as Consumer. Not actively looking, but wanted to get a pulse on where I'd get most $$? Ideally public or pre-ipo companies, where wlb is moderate. I realized working
- vote Stripe folks, interviewing for L5 SWE IC I am currently working at a similar level IC role at another company. My current job has a good WLB and my scope & responsibilities are at a level where I wanted for a long time. (director level report, IC for 40+ headcount group, projects that span multiple groups and require cross-collaboration)
- Recommendation for Urban Designer, City Planner or related jobs Hey all, I just want to know if there are any related field especially in the tech firm field where there are city planning, urban design, or related positions. It’s quite different from my architecture firm but want to learn from a different industry and if hire for a similar work position. Probab
- 9 YOE Product Designer TC Expectations Hey Blinders, I would like to get your thoughts on: 1) Salary expectations based on my LOE 2) What are some good companies with decent TC, remote, and WLB positions if I don't have any FAANG companies on my resume? Please let me know if I could DM you my resume for a referral! I took a huge pay cut
- Where to go after G? I was just recently promoted to L5 SWE but I am getting tired of the politics and likely to hit some sort of 4-year cliff. What do folks these days think are the top places to go after leaving? I am pretty driven to maximize salary but am also appreciative of 40 hour weeks. My first thought was to
- Help me decide: Early Startup or Unicorn? I have an offer from a seed stage startup but also have upcoming interviews with some unicorns (Lyft, Uber, Stripe, etc). Should I just take the startup offer, or go ahead with the unicorn interviews? If I join the startup, I'd be the 3rd Engineer on the team. I think they have a very solid product
- Referrals for SFA at Tech Companies Hi Blind Community, I'm looking for referrals for Senior Financial Analyst (SFA) positions at tech companies. I'm currently an SFA with 7+ YOE, Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Experience in M&A, corporate finance, Tableau, Power BI, and advanced excel for financial modeling. I've been in the re
- Hi Blinders! Can you provide Frontend/SWE referrals in UK, EU? Hi! Im currently at Salesforce with 3.5 YOE in one of the platform engineering teams. I want to move away from India for a while and work in UK, EU. Im in need for referrals for some good startups/FAANGish companies. I have done around ~100 probs on https://bigfrontend.dev/, ~100 probs on Leetcode a
- Need Referrals to Feed my Baby After a year of founding a startup, it's now stable enough to hire some full-time/part-time employees that I trust. They have been working with me on an intermittent basis, and I'm confident in their ability to manage/scale it. However, the business does not yet have enough revenue to support them a
- Series A/seed startup offers I have 2 job offers for senior software engineer role from 2 small startups. One has raised series A and one got the seed money. The series A company has very cool technology which I’m interested in. The seed company doesn’t have amazing tech, but has super high profile CEO and a great CTO, which
- Recruiter told me I come from a poor talent pool I’ve been interviewing at this financial technology start-up (competitor to Stripe) that is growing very quickly, and during one of the first calls with the recruiter, she asked for my salary expectations, where I gave a very reasonable range. She then told me that she was familiar with the talent p
- link Offer negotiation help service Entering final stages with a couple of companies and expecting offers in the next 3 weeks. I was historically sucked at negotiating salary and wonder if there is any service outside that I can hire to get negotiation help. eg. how to talk to recruiters about expectation, how to get written offer let
- Looking for Jobs I was an intern at Salesforce, did not get a full-time offer yet. I was thinking of having back up offers and thought that they might help me in salary negotiation (hopefully if I get to that stage). Applied to Amazon because I thought it would be easier to get in. Applied to around 60 positions, wi
- Where should I go next ? Currently at FB as E4 and it will take me about a year to go to E5. My salary then, will not even be close to the new hires as E5 since internal promotions are usually on the lower side. Planing to go somewhere else for a couple years and come back. I applied to some hot start ups and I’ll be havin
- Early stage startup looking to connect Hey everyone , I made a post a while back about my startup and want to say thank you for all of the support we got! We got over 50 messages on the post and almost 100 dms and still counting as of last week. Wanted to share my progress and see if anyone was in the area. Just closed a pre seed wit
- Leave startup to work for FAANG No longer at Viasat/startup is not Viasat. I'm at a unicorn series C startup. Things are ok, but wlb has been on decline and we have serious growing pains while hiring. Some of the top down decisions by CTO are really out of touch with the actual engineers. Friend told me just last night I looked b
- Companies to target next in career I'm currently working at Amazon, get lots of challenging work and good learning wise. I'm looking for a switch in the next 4-6 months for salary bump. So, what factors do I need to consider in a company that would be helpful in long term career? * work in similar challenging environments (FB, start
- Pivot from my industrial career to DS? ~7 years experience,.diploma in ee, BA,.and upcoming MS.of DS. Mid 30s Grew quickly in F500, leadership and management promotions. Solid engineer in controls, electrical, software (logical stuff, not typical cs), manufacturing and supply chain too...and global experience.... Joined a startup as a
- Got laid-off due to funding issues. Need help with referrals. Hi all, I've been working in an 8-member startup(Edge-computing & 5G) based out of Boulder. Was initially hired as a software engineer, but I've been wearing multiple hats - been involved in SE, PM, Strategy and some DevOps. Got laid-off with all other salaried employees yesterday due to a huge fun
- When to move on? When is it time to move on from a job? I’m pretty comfortable in my job, but also bored and frustrated. I have an average FAANG salary (350 TC, L5, perf usually EE, but have never done better than that). 17 YOE with 10 at G. Married, turned 40 this year and have a kid. Boss is chill, super flexible
- Referrals please! Hi, I'm a software engineer with 5 and half YOE. My expertise is with game development (front and back end) and web development (back end). I'm proficient with C#/Unity and Python/Django. I'm currently looking for a new challenge either tackling large scale game/web development or learning/working
- Looking for a referral Howdy, I'm not learning much at IBM and wanting to join a fast pasted company with good salaries. I have 1 year experience running my own own company and 6 months experience with IBM. No joke, you can consider me entry level. Didn't learn much at IBM, learned a ton with my own company but no code re
- Middlemen like airbnb,Yelp,doordash , Uber , Eventbrite etc are unsustainable in the current shape Edit: this analysis is more for the years to come after this pandemic. But pandemic might have just hastened failing of some companies and I think this will also significantly change how some of these companies operate. We a switch companies, when you switch companies think of the next 2-5-10 yea
- QAE Interview Experience - AMA I am a QA Engineer. I was working in a WITCH company in 2018 and more than 4x ed my salary with my latest job hop. I wanted to give back to the community as there is very less guidance as far as QA position is concerned. This is the template for most of the companies. 1. Coding: Most of the compan
- Looking for a referral for Senior Backend SWE I work for a non public tech company with a good tech stack for us here on the QA Automation Engineering side. The problem for me has been landing interviews coming from QA. Once I get the interviews I am able to explain how I have really been working hard to keep my coding skills sharp as a QA afte
- How to get promoted at FireEye? I’m an associate test engineer at FireEye and am completely oblivious to the promotion practices here, or at any tech company. I am interested in learning about how to get promoted, how much to ask for in salary/ stock / bonus, etc. Before you bash on me for wanting to stay at FEYE, you should know
- Product Manager / Developer hybrid I have a somewhat unique role at my current company. I'm essentially head of product (VP) for my division but I have over 2000 git commits over the past year and contribute to the code base way more than my peer on the engineering side and his direct reports (managers). I love slinging code, but l
- Start up with product-market fit - Join part-time/ full-time Hi Everyone, Earlier this year, we started working on a startup with a great ambition to make a one-stop marketplace. Fortunately, after months of hit and trial, we were able to find the perfect product-market fit. We are growing, growing really fast. About me - Indian origin - Moved to the US ar
- vote Which path should I take? I'll be graduating college next spring, and I'm trying to decide how to start my career. I've done a lot of big N internships, and feel like I've gotten a feel for what a lot of different tech companies are like. I'm trying to narrow down my options, and am seriously considering either 1) joining a
- Feeling Low!! Hi all, I want to take a moment and thank you all for taking sometime and many of you here gave me referral's, found amazing people here, no doubt world is surviving with the great people like you guys!! Im very happy that I met some awesome people here, but unfortunately despite being referred to