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- HELP! Asked to leave for not complying with RTO I am a senior engineer(11 YOE) who was working at complex group level projects that involve more than 5 teams(~50 engineers). Due to my non compliance with RTO policy and being vocal with team and management - I have been asked to leave. I have been sidelined with I am aggressively interviewing at F
- Roblox snap Twitter refreshers Edit: trolls taking over. Refining the question to be specific. Can someone share insights into refresher policy for RSUs or stocks if the stock falls? Does #roblox #snap #twitter compensate with more refreshers to match your target TC upon stock depreciation? TC 450
- Level at booking.com Currently L5A at uber india. What level should I target at Booking amsterdam? Note: Can’t move internally as there is 2 years policy. TC: ~1 cr #booking #uber #uberamsterdam #amsterdam
- Indeed L2 Stock Refresher Policy Hi Wanted to understand Indeed yearly refresh policy. Got an offer for L2 Senior Software Engineer at seattle Base - 165k Target Bonus - 10% RSU - 240k / 4 yr Signing Bonus - 38k YOE : 7+ #software #indeed #seattle
- 2021 Facebook WFH policy Hey FB Blinders, have there been any internal memos or updates regarding WFH policy at Facebook? Still targeting July '21 to come back to the office? TC: $600/wk (unemployment)
- Target compensation around bay area companies Just to have some idea as to whether companies have target compensation policy if the total compensation for the original offer goes down after some working months comparing to what was guaranteed when someone received the offer. What are policies around total compensation if it exist on your compan
- Etsy culture feedback I am considering interviewing for etsy. I wanted to get input from etsy folks- How is the culture at etsy engineering? How is wlb? I hope they don't have policies like Amazon URA targets. TC- 280k #etsy
- Salesforce parental leave policy Have an offer from Salesforce - parental leave policy mentions 26/12 weeks for primary/ secondary caregiver but mentions that pay during that period would be 80% of target pay. Can someone @salesforce tell me what this means?
- Microsoft SSA India Does Microsoft India has SSA as part of reward policy. Or is it specific to US only ? Also what's the target and max stocks for L62 and L63 in India ? Like in US, its 12k and 17k target for 62 and 63 respectively and 35k as max ? Right ? I heard bonus target is same across regions i.e 20% and 30%.
- vote Stripe vs Airbnb Got two offers to decide between and I'm a bit conflicted. Neither beat current comp hugely but I'm kind of tired of my current role. Airbnb 195/550/20 TC ~370 including bonus target The team is a bit smaller and less interesting to me. Refreshes are more straightforward, target 140-160k, vests ove
- What is the YOE requirement for senior engineers Looking at switching company, but currently on promotion path (target at Q4) Under current compensation policy, I likely would not get better TC even if I get promoted. If my target are tier 1 companies, FAANG, MS, Twitter, etc. I’d consider my technical skill prettt decent, would they ever consid
- OCI IC4 bay area offer evaluation YOE 10+ SDE have a verbal offer. How does the below offer look? Base 185k Stocks 125k/y joining 40k 320 TC Do they negotiate on bonus targets? Hows the 401k matching, vacation policy and other benefits? #offer
- Meta/Facebook infrastructure referral? Energy / Sustainability Looking for a referral for Facebook/Meta position 10+ years experience with energy and sustainable infrastructure plus have a public policy background. Targeting a position on the infrastructure team, ideally energy manager or energy strategy. Resume and LinkedIn on request. Thanks in advance!
- Can target bonus and salary raise be prorated due to Maternity leave? Question to all moms who gave birth in 2018: Was your target bonus and salary raise prorated in this year's performance review. Is this something that can be discussed with Manager or HR before going on leave? Do individual States have policies regarding this?
- Help Andy with Two new Leadership Principles We have two new Leadership Principles including one that claims for Amazon to be the Earth's best employer. Help Andy by telling him on this thread what changes he needs to make so that Amazon is earth's best employer. My suggestion - Andy needs to scrap the forced PIP target policy.
- Companies to use for interview practice Hi, I have a list of companies I plan to use for interview practice. Those are companies I think have rigorous interview process but I’m not interested in joining, so I’ll apply and use them to practice for my target companies. Please feel free to chime in with some suggestions: Amazon Tiktok Snap
- Company without URA? Do you guys know any good known companies which don’t follow fixed #URA goal/policy? And has good work culture? I guess different companies might have their own jargons for URA. It means un regretted attrition, where an org has to layoff fixed number/percentage of people. The number is decided year
- Equity Compensation at Capital One I am currently negotiating offer for Senior Manager, Data Engineering at Capital One. They have offered 200k Base 14k Target Bonus 50k Sign on Loc- NYC YOE-13 I am being told by the recruiter that they dont offer equity compensation at this level. They say it is available at Director and above pos
- Google's Remote Policy I would like to know what Google's WFH policy is going forward (recruiter / company policy is unclear ATM). * It is possible / easy to request to work from another campus? * It is possible for lower levels and low team experience (L4 / L5, <1 year at company)? I would like to work from either
- Stripe Equity Refreshes What are typical annual equity refreshes like as a % of base cash comp? (And does this base cash comp include target bonus?) Friends in Stripe are telling me that equity refreshes can be really meagre, like low 5-digit. Does this mean a steep cliff at the end of 4 years? Does anyone know if things
- vote Stripe vs Robinhood (Seattle) Currently deciding between two offers with Stripe and Robinhood in the Seattle area. I've heard pretty negative things about Stripe (wlb, RSU policy doesn't bother me much), and Robinhood seems to be relatively shaky with all the government attention. Stripe L2 Base 175k Stock 127k per year with th
- Rivian offer evaluation: 270k avg 4 year TC (Sr Software Engg) Current offer after 1st negotiation: 190k base, 280k RSU over 4 years quarterly vesting, 40k joining bonus 15% targeted annual bonus (no policy in place right now, but coming up later in 2022) Initial offer was 230k TC Current TC: 230k 4 YOE with MS - ICT 3 at Apple, Expecting ICT 4 promo next ye
- Take offer vs Apply to Faang, 1.5yoe Seattle Got an offer for an SE1 role in Seattle. Public company, mid size. Debating whether the offer is too good to pass up. One red flag is that they're claiming I have 72hrs to accept (which is bs) I currently have a phone screen with Google planned for Sept, and was planning on interviewing with FAANG
- Stripe Negotiation I have an offer from Stripe on what looks like a really interesting team. I did really well in the interview based on feedback but dont think the offer is quite high enough (~10% from my target). Anyone successfully negotiated with a Stripe offer despite the no negotiation policy? How did you appro
- vote Compensation Philosophies Amazon uses a comp philosophy where they look at your total comp over a year (Base+ RSU vest + additional cash from signing bonus) compared to your target compensation for your role and performance. For example, let's say that with your performance a specific year, your total comp goal might be $1
- Amazon 30 day trailing stock price for offers? Can someone confirm if Amazon has a policy of using a 30 day trailing stock price for offers? For e.g. if you were to get an offer today (Aug 9th) from Amazon, they will use the Amazon stock price from around a month ago (July 9th) i.e. the price of around $1988 (instead of today's price $1822) wil
- Microsoft Finance Manager Prep I have an interview with the hiring manager for a Finance Manager/Sr Finance Manager role at Microsoft. Had a great conversation with the recruiter and she mentioned there are multiple roles they’re trying to fill. Can anyone provide some recommendations/tips? My experience has been in Manufacturing
- vote Difficult choice: LinkedIn vs OCI offer I currently received two offers from both companies. LinkedIn: Senior SDE, base 175k, RSU 300k/4y, bonus 10%, sign-on 40k. First two years avg: ~288k Location: Sunnyvale Oracle: Recruiter told me they can match to avg 325k for first two years. IC3. Location: Seattle Since OCI is at Seattle, it ha
- Looking for Twitter or DoorDash referral Hey blind fam. Looking to make a career switch into a tech company. Any referrals would be greatly appreciated! Targeting Twitter and DoorDash but willing to look at others. I am currently interviewing for m2 roles at Facebook I have over 12 years of senior leadership experience in leadership and
- vote Roblox SRE vs Reddit I recently got approached for SRE team@Roblox. I might be targeting IC3/IC4 position based on my YoE = 4 years. I am trying to understand: 1) Tech Stack for SRE Team's (I hear they run their own colo and little AWS footprint.). 2) WLB, stock growth potential. 3) Remote work? Are SRE Team's remot
- Meta/Google/Microsoft comp after 4 years? I want to understand a Senior SWE's comp at Meta/Google/Microsoft after all the initial RSU are vested (i.e. 5th year onward). I am asking because lots of people talk about the crazy offer they got/negotiated which covers the first 4 years' RSU and sign on bonus, however the stock refresher policy i
- Target Bonus At Stripe Hi All , I heard from the stripe recruiter during verbal offering that the target bonus for L2 is 10% but not guaranteed. I was told it is : base * 10% * performance-multiplier * company-multiplier . Is this accurate? If so : What is the usual company multiplier especially with the new vest policy
- vote Sr. SDE Offer eval: Coinbase v.s Meta Coinbase: Sr. SDE base: 206k rsu: 175k (annual) target bonus:20k Meta: Sr. SDE base: 210k rsu 700k (4 years) sign-on : 70k The wlb might not be good in these two companies. Since I am currently in Amazon, I have pretty low expectation for good wlb. Care more about personal growth. Have talked wit
- Ethical to get a job with a company with good new parent leave policy right before having a baby? I've been working at my own start up for over a year, and my wife's job has kept the bills paid and roof over our heads. However, she will have our second child in a month + a week or two. Once she does, we decided together that she should transition to be a stay at home mom. Independently, my Co-f
- Bell curve and forced attrition? Do other FAANG companies also follow strict bell curves and keep targets for attrition? At Amazon this is followed quite strictly. While it is a forcing function for everyone to continuously keep raising the bar, it adds an extraordinary amount of stress level and unfortunately leads to back stabbin
- How can the US break up big tech? If big tech is broken up, I think we can all agree that the tech companies would be not as successful as today. FAA(M?)G seem to be the primary targets. However, breaking these up will reduce the competitiveness of US companies - especially when Chinese ones like Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Bytedance
- vote Compass or Square? TC at both companies will be 450k+ , the differences are minor (Square - 50K more at the first 4 year, excluding sign-in bonus and excluding refreshers) Compass base is higher than Squares. Square's 401k matching policy is better. Target refreshers at (max) Square are up to 35% of the original RSU g
- Uber comp after promotion to L4 Hi wanted to know what is Ubers compensation after promotion from L3-L4. I got downlevelled to L3 but my manager and my team sincerely believe I would be promoted within a year with high probability, assuming I dont fuck up. Uber is offering me 123k base 130 stock 12.5 target 31k joining bonus spli
- Amazon vs Walmart Labs - Fresh Grad (India) Final year student currently interning at Amazon. I also interned at Walmart Labs (now Walmart Global Tech) from July to December last year. I have received placement offer from both (amazon is intern + ppo). I'm having trouble deciding between Walmart and Amazon, need some help and I'm not sure if
- vote Offer Compare: Airbnb,Dropbox and Google Background: Current Company: Amazon L5 4.5 YOE TC 200k I interviewed several companies and got the following offers: Dropbox IC3 Seattle 200K Base + 500K## Equity + 20K sign-on. 15% target bonus and has refresher. Airbnb G8/L4 Seattle Still negotiating offer but seems to me the highest I could ge
- only certain salaried employees told to clock in? myself and a member of my team were sent an email by HR, without our supervisor cc’d, telling us we were now required (after years at the company) to clock in and out. we frequently work off site and at industry events making this impossible. when we asked about it further, HR ignored our emails, an
- Looking for Tech Referral Hey blind fam. Looking to make a career switch into a tech company. Any referrals would be greatly appreciated! I have over 12 years of senior leadership experience in leadership and individual contributor roles. My experience and expertise is in building and optimizing organizational processes, m
- Facebook Offer E5 DE - Infra Strategy Have strong competing IC5 DE offers within the Facebook E5 SWE band at other Tier 1/2 companies. Using those competing DE offers as data points for negotiations. Initial FB offer is bottom of IC5 DE band. What is the max band for IC5 DE - Infrastructure Strategy? Also, how does the Infrastructure
- vote Should I accept this Stripe offer? I recently received an L2 offer from Stripe and am trying to weigh the pros & cons of whether to take it. Current TC (Level equivalent to Stripe L1): $150k base & 17k options over 4 years at a low strike price Stripe Offer (L2): $170k base (+ target bonus 10%) & $85k worth of RSUs yearly (amount r
- Does India/UK experience count when Applying for Roles in FAANGMULA+ I have around ~10 years of experience with 5.5 of them in Indian and UK. I was consulting in UK. Experience Breakdown: ~5.5 Years before my masters (3 Years of this was in UK) 1.5 Years consulting at a Bank 3 Years Full time at my current employer. I'm a Quant doing a bit of MLE work and I'm cu
- Amazon response after on site interview Hello everyone, Today I received following response from Amazon recruiter after on site interview. Is it generic response sent to everyone when not selected or they really think I am a good fit for Amazon? Also anything I can do from my side while applying for other roles at Amazon? Any help is muc
- I resigned for a new position. My current company asked me to do some contracting. I resigned this week and accepted a new job. Now my previous job is really pushing me to do some consulting work to keep their project moving. I'm not sure what the new company's policy is on this. I was at IBM before and I signed an agreement to not work for any competitor, which is basically any t
- Just explained an AWS s3 recruiter why I will not return to AMZN. Please read if you consider accpeting an offer Update to my post: Turns out this is the hiring manager, not a recruiter. They responded to my email -they wrote me they work hard to make their org a better employer. I believe they have good intentions, but wasn't it Papa Jeff who said that good intentions (by themselves) do not count? Backgrou
- Stripe DE Tech Stack Hoping someone can provide detail on the Data Engineering Tech Stack at Stripe. I know that Scala / Spark and Airflow are the main languages / tools used. Are there any other frameworks or tools that DEs at Stripe use or *can* use? Debating between FB IC5 DE (Infrastructure Strategy) vs. Stripe L
- Curiosity of a first time home buyer I am a first time home buyer and planning to get a home, preferably townhouse in South Bay Area. But there are certain factors, which is preventing me to make a concrete decision: 1. I am a single earning member and got recently married. 2. Offices are going to open in few months, with my company i