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- Operations Manager Looking for Referrals YOE - 10 TC - 60k In the midst of everyone switching careers, I’ve decided to do the same so I’m searching for referrals, reach outs, recommendations, or anything! Open to customer service, customer success, operations. 6 years of people management experience in customer/provider facing roles. #
- Anything wrong with this CD buying strategy? Let's say there are short term CD's that their duration is only one month with the rate of %2. I can buy equivalent of 100k and I'll have 102k after one month. Immidiately after expiration I buy the same CD or another 2% with 102k and I can do that for a whole year, and get the my princioal with co
- vote New Construction affordability Hello blind community, I am under a house contract (East Seattle) with an estimated completion date sometime in march/april 2023. I already paid close to 62k as an initial deposit + design studio appointment. The total cost of the house including interior upgrade comes to around 1.03M, So I will ha
- investing in VTI/VOO etc if you plan to move out of USA I have been DCA'ing into VTI/VOO for the last year or so. But now things have changed on personal front and have decided to move out of USA in the next 2 years. Does it make sense to invest in vti/voo for next 2 years and then leave and let it be in the account? I am ok to wait for like next 10 ye
- Does the financial media do a good job of understand the finance industry? I'm a reporter at Bloomberg. I report on wealth (billionaires, etc), so I don't report directly on the big financial firms, but I sit in and around the team of reporters who do. We compete with the WSJ, Reuters, and a cadre of trade publications to break news of the latest deals on Wall Street and t
- Career Change Internship Programs / Jobs for Coding Boot Camp Grad I'm posting this on behalf of someone else. She is in early 30s with a college degree (not CSE) and has left a career of being a school teacher and is looking for opportunities as a software engineer. She has completed a coding boot camp while working as a teacher. She has applied to a few companies
- Help with Referral (Data Engineer) - NC and TX Hi folks, Appreciate if anyone can help referring to Data Engineer/ ETL developer profiles in TX and North Carolina. Skillset : Azure Data Services (ADF, Data Bricks etc ) Snowflake Teradata Informatica i am currently on a visa dependent status and the bots automatically filtering the candidat
- Operations Manager Looking for Referrals YOE - 10 TC - 60k Trying to move up by moving to a new company where growth is possible, so I’m searching for referrals! Open to customer service, customer success, operations or anything along those lines. 6 years of people management experience in customer/provider facing roles. #google #amazo
- Parking cash for down payment? Sounds like a lot of people on here are parking cash for a down payment on a place or hoping to eventually snatch a bargain on a real estate investment. Where do you keep this money and how are you having it work for you? Let’s keep retirement funds out of the discussion and talk short-medium term.
- Target date funds vs using financial advisors I recently sold my rental property and have about 500k to invest. I also have some IRAs with more than 100k. One option I am thinking of going with is Vanguard's Personal advisor services so that they manage this money better. They charge 0.3% commission annually on the assets being invested. The ot
- Roth IRA? And investment advice I spoke to Vanguard, Fidelity, and Morgan Stanley. All tried to sell me on their admin services so turning to trusted blind for advise considering most of you might have already gone through this. How can high earners contribute to Roth ITA with income limit? I can do backdoor IRA but then wouldnt
- Investment advice for money in US bank for Canadian resident Noob investment/financial question for my peeps in Canada. I have some USDs sitting in a US bank whereas I am a Canadian resident. My understanding is that I cannot buy ETFs via US brokerage accounts (such as Vanguard, E-Trade, etc.). I want to know what my options are in case I want to invest that
- Spending distribution in 2019 So I have been analyzing my spending habits for the previous year, and thought to share with the community and see how others are doing. This is the breakdown; percentages as of post-tax income (salary only). 1) 27.5% on "essential" expenses - rent, car insurance/gas, utilities, phone plan, food,
- 401k contribution if not settling down in US Hello Blinders, For people who aren't sure of settling down in USA, what is your 401k contribution amount? I am unsure if I would settle down in US, so thinking what my 401k contribution should be. Couple of questions. 1. I already contribute to get company match ( free money). But wondering if I sh
- Does it make sense for me to switch out of my target date fund? I’m 22 and I’m maxing out my 401k at $19,500 as well as $6000 in my Roth IRA. I’m wondering if it’s better for me to switch from my Vanguard Target 2065 fund to an all equities portfolio. I mean I have a timeline of 40+ years so bonds don’t really make sense which is why I want to drop the target d
- Roth 401k vs Pretax 401k I maxed out 401k (30k after match) and it’s all mostly in the pretax target retirement fund (other than a little in the Vanguard Brokerage Option). I maxed out the HSA (3500) and put it in the the target retirement fund also. Today I opened a Roth contributory IRA and transferred 6000 from my checki
- Is it better to just invest passively? In this thread I see crazy discussions about picking hot stocks, when to jump in or out, etc. I have been trying to do that for a few months and find it a little exhausting, both emotionally and time wise. I compared the performance of my hand picked stocks/etfs to that of the Schwab robo account I
- 300k CAD, Invest in Home or Wait, Help! TC: 200 CAD, YOE - 3.5 Saved approximately, 300k CAD so far, = Breakdown:- 120K invested in FANG stocks, 45k Invested in Vanguard High Growth / High Risk mutual funds Rest is Cash ( I know - big cash to offset high risk investment?? ) Married, 31, Planning first kid next year, sole earner,
- Where Should I Invest 100k?! Hi team, I would love to get some advice from experienced Blinders (did I just invent that word for us?) who know a thing or two about investing on where I should put $100k Current situation: - Only debt is a car loan with $30k left. Should I pay this off? I know market returns are 8-10% and my
- Index/Mutual Funds Total noob here, trying to understand how they work. Stocks can be bought at market or set by limit order so adjusting your risk threshold. However, how does funds work, they are priced once at the end of trading day, so lets say if I start investing in VTSAX today, do I get the price from yesterday
- Need Financial Advice I’m planing to make a real estate investment purchase soon worth around 22K. I don’t have 22K in cash and have less than that so I wouldn’t want to take that out. However I have a decent amount of stock in MS, Vanguard, Robinhood, and Acorn. I don’t want to sell 22K in stock though. Here is what I’
- How muchucj do you put in your kids 529? Inspired by the recent ivy league thread. I opened a 529 account through vanguard when my son was born and my SO and I put ~750 a month into it. Able to max out retirement and cover other bills, but worry sometimes I'm not putting in enough or am putting in too much. According to some online calcul
- Is it a good investment technique to buy same big company stocks every month? Being a private company, I don't get any stock options. All the income I get is in cash. As I hear in Blind that a lot of folks get RSUs and earn a lot from them, I was thinking of ways I can try to catch up wrt TC. Today, I invest any left over money in the beginning of every month into Vanguard ET
- Got a windfall: where to invest? Managed to sell a small portion of my startup equity and have made 1M cash, which will be taxed at long term capital gain. Where should I put the after tax money to diversify? My current net worth not considering this sale is 800k split in vanguard funds and bonds 80/20. I also have a 3% stake in c
- Retirement account investment question I am interested in getting some advice on investing in tax-advantaged accounts. I currently max out my roth-401k (18k) and the company matches 9k pretax. I am currently single and so my tax rate is very high (my TC is 500k+ now). I read about mega backdoor roth and checked out other blind posts rega
- Saved 50k over the past three years after paying off my student loan debt. Need investment advice. With the market bleeding all round, I am hoping I can get into the market at some point. I'm not asking what the right point is - because that'd be thing the market. I'm asking for recommendations on what sort of stocks (or other investment vehicles) I can look into, especially beyond tech stocks.
- vote Offer Evaluation I am a UX Designer based in Chicago with 3 YOE. Current TC: $115k ($105k base + 10% bonus) Offer 1: Vanguard CXD Team: Mobile App Location: Remote TC: $150k (130k base + 10% bonus + 8k sign on) Details: I LOVED the people I interviewed with, we just clicked. Sounds like a ton of growth in UX at th
- Getting into rental property / real estate investments Hello fellow investors, Any advice on how does one get into real estate rental property investments ? I am looking for remote property management with as little headache as possible, well established management companies/websites where I can just deposit money and get passive returns ? I have abou
- 900k (illiquid) TC but severely burned out Joined an early stage startup a few years ago when it was 20 employees and the business has been doing well with 300 employees now and valued at 500M. But I’m super burned out and there’s no way to fix it, no changing team, nothing else. I dread going into work every single day and am depressed all
- My dear TC chasers Now that you’re reading, I need bit of a help with understanding investments. I am in Seattle and make $160k base. I am contributing 12% to my 401k through Fidelity. That’s close to about $19500 I take it. I am also contributing about $3k into my HSA. Now I understand that I won’t be eligible fo
- Complete failure at DP I’m getting incredibly depressed. I work at a startup where I make reasonable money (330k TC plus some illiquid equity that will hopefully become worth something one day) and I have 8 yoe, but I’m completely burned out and would like to leave for a better opportunity. Net worth is 1.2M all liquid at
- Private Shares - Should I sell in Secondary Market? I worked for a unicorn in Bay Area and quit after 3 years. Exercised all my vested stock options. It has only been 3 months but I am now getting a secondary market offer to sell it at an attractive price that would get me ($550k minus taxes). However, I will be hit with short-term gain. While I be
- On my Path to FI(RE) I wish to be financially independent and been working on it. Please review and comment - living/working in bay area from 2006. - Married for 8 years. No kids. But we might adopt after we move back to India ( target 2022) - Living in Bay area. Bought brand new house for 900k. Probably worth 1.3 n
- Worth switching to FAANG for less comp? Hello Blind, I am severely burned out and depressed by my current job situation, so I hope I could get some wise advice. I have 8yoe and I was an early employee at a startup that is growing quite well. As a result, my compensation is significantly high due to valuation increase, and I am currently
- Can I justify buying myself a Tesla Model S? So I have this belief that just because you can pay for something it doesn’t actually mean you can afford it. I’m a very frugal person and I have been all my life. I had a very humbling upbringing and I do not come from a lot of money. However, I’ve really grown to like Tesla and I really want to
- vote Sample Calculations for Home Buying Hi, Married couple here, no kids, early 30s, plan to have at least one kid in a year or so (maybe one more in future). TC: $425K/annum, good credit score (750+). Home budget: $800-850K We are thinking about buying a condo in MTV/Sunnyvale area or in San Mateo county (husband works in the city, wif
- 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
- $1.98M net worth with $560k in debt in 8 years I’m just thankful to God I’m really thankful to God for everything I have. I have worked @ MSFT for almost 8 years 4 years in India & remaining 4 in US. As regular IDC move when moved to US I had peanuts MSFT stocks but doubled my salary in 2 years(thanks to few SSAs, fair team & two promos). My networth today is ~$1.98M w
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
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- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
- best ways to buy bitcoin What is the best way to buy bitcoin? I've heard Robinhood is horrible :(
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- Referrals Hey everyone, looking for referrals I have a Masters degree in CS YOE - 3+ TC - 110k #Uber #Lyft #Dropbox #Microsoft #Netflix #Slack
- Any H4 applicants still waiting for Biometric appointment. Mine was filed in may 2020 and still waiting.
- Facebook WFH Options Hello Facebookers. Are you all allowed to WFH as per news or only some teams allow that? TC: 250k