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- vote Yelp London vs US based start-up in India Hi, I have below offers from Yelp London and a US based start-up (Bangalore/Remote) Yelp 70k£ base + 70k$ RSUs + 7k£ Joining + 8k£ relocation + 5% Variable Startup 53L base + 7.5L Bonus (15%) + 5L joining + ~48 L Esops In terms of org and work, I find both of them interesting. I'm considering ye
- Gender based Gang up If you are of minority gender in your team 1:4 , where the majority are of the same age and gender , did you ever experience others gang up against you? Always disagree with any of your opinions / suggestions ?
- Fidelity with low base or start up with high base Hi, I recently got offer for Senior devops engineer position in below companies - Fidelity Investments(NC)- 115k + 20% Annual bonus + 10% profit sharing + 401k 100% match upto 7% Onetrust(GA) - 145k + 10% annual bonus + 401k 50% upto 5%. Not sure if I should go for high base or low base with lon
- Stock vs base break up at Oracle What's the stock vs base break up for cloud team at Oracle for a ic3 vs ic4? I have heard ic3 get around 200k n ic4 250-300k?
- vote Base salary increase moving up a level I know every company is different, but realistically what is the expected increase in base salary as you move up a level. #tech
- Recruiter told me base salary goes up to $X When a recruiter first spoke to me she said base salary goes up to $X amount. If forced to give a number during negotiation with the company, what's the lowest I should say? $X*1.1? #salary #negotiation
- What is the base pay break up in Amazon Hello, What is the base pay break up in amazon ? I can see component Base Pay + sign on bonus + RSU What is the base pay break up? Where the sign on bonus will add in my monthly salary slip? Help is appreciated 🙂
- Databricks interview coming up: ‘front-end based questions’? recruiter said its a full-stack role but the interview will contain front-end questions. what does this mean? Can LC even prepare you for this? No 3sum? ty 🙏😍 #software #engineering #swe
- TC 250, base 145, Hardware engineer II Amazon.How do I bump up my base? L5-L6 politics. How do I bump up my base?, My manager wants to get me to L6 for Q2 next year and feels like playing with me. Is it worth the wait?#engineer #interview #hardware #L5 to L6. Location: Sunnyvale
- Salary at San Francisco based (but fully remote) start-up? I have a job offer for a mid-level role as a FE web dev using React. I (as most others who work there) will be working remotely full-time with only a few IRL meetings per year. The industry is cybersecurity if that helps. It’s a pretty well established start up (whose software is used by tier 1 com
- vote Is Seattle house price going up with Amazon base increase? May change the jumbo loan definition again. 💵
- Who tf came up with terms like "grok" and "touch base", etc.? They're so lame and unnatural. Do you actually use these? How do you not cringe when you do so. Is this the twitch chat vernacular, SE version? TC 500K 1Y #engineering #software #swe
- Is Shopify going to level up the pay at all? (Toronto based) How are you guys going to "double the hc this year" if you don't keep up the pay with other folks like Wish, Google, Facebook, Doordash, Uber or etc that are increasing their presence in Toronto? I like the vibe there but the pay is just so bad... please correct me if I am wrong. TC $310KCAD, Goog
- Anyone heard of an Austin based start up Molecula ? They’re a series A startup and have secured a funding of $17M in January of this year. Curious to know if anyone here is working or has worked there. Would love to know more about their culture, product etc.
- How do you evaluate a start up on crunch base? Pretty new to “evaluating” start ups and I’d like to know/learn what to look out for.
- Start up offer based on 3x valuation of their previous fundraising Recently got an offer from a startup company, but the stock options are based on 3x of their valuation from previous fundraising. Can I assume that the valuation will not go lower than this in the next fundraising?
- link Opportunities at a growing Start-up or product based company(India) Hi Blind Community, I am looking for backend role. Preferably cloud-native space. Tech stack Golang, Python, Postgres, Docker, Angular. I have over-all 5 years of experience in product based companies. I would prefer a remote opportunity but if hybrid then based out of Hyd/Pune. TC: 26L Cheers!!
- Base salary for PM at a 2 year start up? how much should i ask and expect ? san francisco should be base + equity e-commerce start up 1 year of experience
- startup verbal offer (seattle area) 160K base + 9000 options and no following up 13+ years experience they gave me a verbal offer of 160K and 9000 options on last Wednesday. And we had a phone discussion on Last Thursday I asked 210k base. They said they will see what they can do (they might give 200K) . And after that they didn't follow up. I am not sure what should I do? Kee
- vote Am I fucked up? (TC is ~220k = base 166k, rsu 25k, bonus ~30k) Lucky you all. I have 11 yoe, as HW engineer my base is 166k, my rsu is 25k per year!!! And bonus is 20% (if they give) I am a reliability engineer (four years of experience) and was process engineer in foundry (7 years of experience) I have lots of patents, I feel bad that I am treated like shit!
- Looks like employment based GC processing time is now up to 5 years!! Most offices are showing a processing time of 51 to 63 months for employment based GC. This is for all EB GCs, not for any specific countries. Could this be an error?!? Not sure what’s going on here! Edit: I’m referring to the time it takes to get GC after your PD becomes current
- vote What’s easier/more palatable when negotiating for higher TC: bump up base salary or bump up stocks? #negotiation #tc #base #stocks
- How much base and equity should I expect for a coo role for series d tech start up? Interviewing w/ a series d fintech company for a coo role. Company valuation is about 500m. What base and equity should I expect?
- vote If the usual base for the position is $115K, which number should I put up for negotiation? As I don't want to be lowballed and definitely don't want to ask a number which is insanely higher than the usual base, which number should I put up if the usual base is $115K (interview went really good). #offer #tc
- [INDIA] A start up based out of USA is offering 70LPA for a remote job. I have always worked for Large Companies I am yet to get the offer from MSFT INDIA. Queries : 1 - How do I evaluate the company itself?#tech 2 - What is the job security for such roles? 3 - What are the questions I should the co founders, who sees business side of things? The role which has been communicated to me will involve C++, ru
- If you had to give one advice based on experience to somebody willing to start up, what would it be? In the Computer Vision / Machine Learning space FWIW. #startup
- Setting up to purchase software IP from slacking partner, any advice please? He's open to it, want to cover all bases... I'm the third wheel here, my business partner was 50/50 In a prior business. He did all the coding and his slacking partner never pulled the weight. The option is now on the table to cut him out and bring that IP into our venture. I want to make sure that I'm covering all bases with the approach he
- link Google boosted base pay for 4 top execs to $1M and handed them up to $34M in stock, weeks after refusing to raise wages https://www.businessinsider.com/google-bumps-execs-pay-inflation-raise-2022-1
- vote 3 Software Engineering Offers, help me choose one TikTok (2-1): TC-360K (Base-230K, Stock-30K, Performance Bonus-25%, SignOn- 40K) Google (L3): TC- 240K (Base-160K, Stock-80K) Cruise (start up, therefore stock is paper money): TC- 380K (Base-200k, Stock-120k, SignOn-60k) Current TC - 215K and 3 YOE
- Stripe Staff vs Instacart Staff Instacart offer: 270k base 1.92m equity grant 50k sign on bonus 750k TC w/o sign on bonus Stripe offer: 250k base 1.5m equity grant 20% bonus (off base) 60k sign on bonus 675k TC w/o sign on bonus Trying to get Stripe up a bit into 7xx range but we’ll see. Either way there is news it Instacart go
- Advice regarding negotiating Job offer I recently got two job offer in the bay Area.Company A pays me base + stock(RSUs /yr) and Company B has it structured as base + stock(RSUs/yr) + sign-on bonus + relocation. I want to join Company B so i asked them to increase their offer. They end up matching company A's offer but by increasing sign
- vote Help evaluate Square and Twitter offers #swe #square #offer A friend not on Blind got two remote offers for a LCOL area (think OH / MI). Please help evaluate his offers: Square L6/Staff SWE - approx $265k/year $165k base $15k sign on bonus $330k RSUs over 4 years No yearly target bonus 3-5% base raise every year Up to 25% yearly refres
- vote Deciding between 2 offers Which offer would you take? Microsoft Redmond L61 144k base 40k sign on 130k rsus vested over 4 years Unnamed series E Data analytics start up 175k base no sign on + 200k rsus vested over 4 years (might have to wait until ipo to sell) 1.5 YOE current TC 150k
- vote Sell house, 70% appreciation over 2 years Tldr - should we sell our home that has appreciated 70% in 2 years, move closer to family and friends, tier up on a new house that's 50% bigger... and also pay 60% more monthly? (90%+ of house sale proceeds goes into new down payment) Details ------- Bought home mid COVID for great deal and interes
- Riot Games p4 development manager offer eval Want to know the if it’s a good start to even negotiate. Personally I think it’s way lower than I expected. It’s more of a program management sort of role on site in LA, California Base: 140K Annual bonus: 15% LTI : 15% Signing bonus: up in the air (maybe 10-20k) RSU: $31.5K Tc: 🥜 YOE: about 9
- Cool companies that pay well with good wlb? Going on 4 years at rivn. Thinking like figma (not sure about wlb) or anduril (kinda unethical but money?) Thoughts on others? Would prefer to avoid companies that want a grind. I’m tired. Edit: Wow this blew up. Also by popular demand, tc: 160 base+ 150/yr at current price. Yoe 4
- vote Interview at twitter? Have an interview at twitter coming up - should I go through with it? How does Elon Musk buying up twitter affect RSUs/offers for someone coming on? Blind tax: Tc 250k (all base) Loe 12 years
- GCP TAM Offer (L4) Google, Technical Account Manager, Finance. Base: 117k Sign-On Bonus: 15.5k Location: Austin, TX The base is lower than what I’m making now, working with recruiter to up this number, but he’s conveying that 117k is already on the high end, which is kind of laughable. Any feedback would be apprecia
- Just got my pcs. Please help me understand the peanuts Just got my pcs. L5 SDE. YOE 10. Previous pcs: base 143600, stocks 76575. New pcs: base 194000, stocks: 57219. Did my manager screw me up? Rating Exceeds: High Bar
- vote Offer Eval: Coinbase vs. Gemini Gemini ---------- Applied for Senior, got up-leveled to Staff - Base: $260,000 - Signing: $50,000 - Bonus: $32,500 (12.5% of Base) - Equity: 10,000 PIUs (Profit Interest Units) - 401K: 100% match up to 5% ($13,000) - PTO: unlimited Total Cash Y1: $354,500 Total Equity Y1: ? (0) Coinbase ----------
- Meta offer review Please review this offer for Meta L5 (probably one of the last ones): Base 195k Equity 575k/4 Bonus 15% Total TC ~ 365k Location NYC I'm pushing to get this up, how much could I push? Current TC: 170k
- VISA Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack Received an offer for Visa Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack in Austin, TX Base: 135k Sign on: 0 Bonus: 10 - 20 % (payout can vary between 0% and 200% of bonus target, with a maximum bonus opportunity up to 20% of the salary based upon performance) RSU none at sign, it is not guaranteed. Relocat
- MS vs Intel offer Hi Blinders, Could you give advice on these offers? Intel G8 205k base 200k RSU/3y ~18k+6-7% bonus MS 63 200k base 250k RSU/4y 50k sign-on/2y up to 30% bonus up to 44k refresh grant Both in bay area. Plus, I have Google pending on decision and other interviews asked. Should I keep seeking on other
- vote Is 100% 401K Match up to 5% of salary above average? Saw this from the startup perk post https://www.teamblind.com/post/Most-ridiculous-startup-perks-4JoNF6FN OP was saying 100% Match up to 5% was a good perk from their company. Some comments say their companies match up to 12%. Updated: Analog puts %5 of salary without needing contribution from the
- Wtf Roblox To all Robloxians, This is your shareholder speaking. Stop being greedy and getting paid so much. Q4 2020 to Q4 2021: Stock based comp up 7.5x R&D expense up 3x Net loss up 2.4x Revenue up 1.8x Be frugal (like Amazon).
- #metalayoff trending in LinkedIn? I get LinkedIn is a goofy social media, but what’s up with the layoffs? Sounds different than typical restructuring stuff. St00pkidd forgot the tax: TC $181k Base $151 Bonus 12.5% target YOE 7 Analytics
- Offer eval for fintech startup going public in ~1yr Well-funded fintech start-up. Cryptocurrency space. Solid business model, profitable, well-connected in finance. Software engineering Current TC: $315K Offer: $275k base, between $750k-1.5mn options Base was negotiated up. I think it's a pretty solid offer, especially for a start-up, although
- Less buying power due to rise in interest rate. Any lenders who consider RSUs for mortgage limit?? My banker just told me I can only afford up to $3.4M purchase price, down from $3.75M a month ago. Perfect example of reduced affordability which could be a headwind to house prices. This is primarily since interest rates have gone up and I have reached the 43% debt limit (based on my base and bonu
- Amazon L5 offer how is this offer for L5 - SD2 ( bay area) YOE: 8 Base: 180k bonus: 184k RSUs: ~266k based on current price. Yearly TC: 292k #offer btw this is final and non-negotiable. Amazon has an interesting way of granting stocks. it is expected the value goes up 15% Yoy. so keeping that in mind. the tc ma
- vote Yelp London vs Zalando Berlin vs Dazn Amsterdam Hi folks, posting on behalf of friend Please help in deciding which one to accept on basis of career progression, wlb. All offers expire next week. Yelp London Role : IC2, SDE Base : £70k RSUs: $70k (4 year vesting) One time sign on bonus : £7k One time relocation allowance : £8k Performance bonus