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- Wish Salaries Expecting an offer for either SDE 2/3 from Wish to appear, does anyone have any insight into comp packages? It looks like high based and paper RSU's but not sure what I can get base. Also is signing bonus popular? Tc: 300k #salary #offer #tech
- Wish Sr Manager Salary I am expecting an offer with Wish for Sr Manager? How much salary can I expect?
- Wish L4 salary swe Hi, recently interviewed at Wish received positive feedback for swe role. What is the salary expected? how are refreshers and at what price RSU's are going to be allocated? no numbers yet tc:200k yoe: 5 #wish
- Instacart, Wish, Pinterest and Databricks salaries in Toronto I an thinking of moving with my partner who just landed a teaching job in Toronto. Currently L4 (2 YOE) at G, 210K TC
- vote Do you wish your spouse worked in tech or made a tech salary? Does your spiuse stay at home or wish they worked a texh like salary?
- Made 1m this year as of today.. AMA Including Rsus and Salary Around 630k in profits so far. Big taxes coming🤪🤪🤪 Toast me or Boost me. Your wish🥳 #personal finance #investments
- How do you respond to “equitability” excuses in negotiations? I was recently negotiating a job offer and ended up declining at a late stage. When the company said they couldn’t meet my base salary request, which just matched what my base is currently, they said they looked at other people at the level I’d be joining and could not see an “equitable” way to meet
- Cracked Google, Facebook and Netflix but failed in all startup interviews! Cracked Google L4, Facebook E4, Microsoft (62), and Netflix (Senior SDE) easily and got decent offers. I failed in initial screening rounds in all start-up companies (~10) including Asana, Robinhood, Wish, Roblox, Snap and etc even though I believe I perform decently. Are they really that hard now?
- Top/Prestigious Companies to work for in 2021 Better I've seen one too many garbage company-ranking lists on this site. So here is the official list, methodology is based on senior swe salaries + prestige: Tier 0: HRT, Jane Street (Top Quant Firms) Tier 1: Google, Facebook, Netflix, Snap, Stripe, Robinhood, Pinterest, Airbnb, Two Sigma, Citadel, Dat
- vote Microsoft India vs Amazon Cambridge UK Hello Everyone, I am a new grad 2022 from India,and I have these two offers. Microsoft India : Salary: ₹14 LPA Relocation : ₹3 Lac Signing Bonus: ₹2.5Lac first year + ₹2.5Lac 2nd year Stock bonus: $30,000 vested over 4 years Bonus: Performance - based bonus up to 20% of salary every year Total comp
- vote Does FOMO go away once you have broken into big tech? I work at a Fortune 500, and make a decent living and have pretty good WLB. However I often find myself wishing I was working for a bigger tech company with high salaries, perks, and stonks. For those of you who have worked in tech for a while and then moved to a big tech company or FAANG, do you f
- FINALLY ECLIPSED 100k—THANK YOU BLIND I’m 27 years old, and over the last couple years I’ve been following lots of topics in here pretty quietly for the most part (occasionally I’ll weigh in). Lots of learning about ways to get ahead in general, from getting more out of current company to finding new opportunities externally, to really
- I did it, I'm going to Google! Thanks to all of you on Blind who answered all my questions in the past and for providing valuable insight into the industry and the interview process. Approximate timeline: Early Jan: Google recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn, initial phone screen Skipped phone screen and went straight to onsites,
- Goodbye 🇺🇸 I’m feeling a bit sad I have to leave after investing in immigrating here.No way to stay here permanently.Looks like my career is going to suck but oh well :( I wish the world was a fairer place . Just looking at tech jobs and salaries outside the US is depressing
- UX/Content Design Compensation at PayPal Any UX Designer/Content Designer at PayPal able to provide their salary range? I'd like to know what to expect going into salary negotiations. Location is San-Jose, CA. I'm in the final round for a junior position (btw, any interview tips appreciated). Ps- What's the design culture like? What do y
- Need Referrals! I am an SDE I at a startup right now, and looking for referrals from startups and MNCs both in India. I have a really low salary and its depressing.I have been leetcoding for a while now and wish to get into product based companies. Please help me out with referrals. Yoe - 1.6 TC - 🥜 6Lpa Expertis
- Companies that don’t adjust remote salaries As title says, if you know of companies that have remote salaries the same as in office or hybrid. I’ll try to maintain a master list. And for my Canadian’s please mention if you know if that company will adjust salary across Canada as well. TC 150 SGD #remotework #wfh Companies: ——————- Reddit Z
- Hardware to Software Shift - Online MS or Leetcode? With pure hardware system design experience in resume, Will I get interview calls from top companies with just Leetcoding? Or need Masters? I like to code and wish to jump. Also if got a job, should I start from fresh grad salary YOE 4(1@US) TC 200K
- Salary questions in job interviews The recruiter asked me my current salary, and I caved and told her. I wish I hadn't because I feel it's low and I don't want them to think they can offer me a slightly less low salary, but still low. How can I work this to my benefit?
- FTW!!! Colorado requires employers to disclose salary on job postings Cheers to you Colorado for taking a great step. It’s an old news but I just found out when looking through Microsoft job posting where they mentioned “salary range for the role is xxxx in Colorado”. I wish more states follow footsteps of Colorado which will help in reducing wage gaps and increase de
- Nris and arranged marriage I recently moved to the us and as a single guy am striving hard to be a good future-husband and future-parent. Trying my best to improve my credit score, save the most of my salary and being fit and positive in general. I wish to know how women engineers choose spouses as part of the typical Indian
- Significantly Underpaid I believe I’m being significantly underpaid compared to market salary because my starting salary was so low when I signed on. (Was young and didn’t know any better - wish Blind was around then!) How would you approach this situation? Talk to manager? Talk to HR? Analyst - San Jose, CA 2.5 YOE Ba
- Best SQL monkey salary possible I’m a SQL monkey masquerading as a data scientist. I wish to evolve into a more salaried Planet-of-the-Apes-esque SQL monkey with better salary (current TC -110k with 5 years experience) by switching companies. What do you think is the best salary one can aim for long term without having to resort
- 2021 Google Intern Offer Just got an offer for Google Fall 2021 SWE Intern. Do interns get any stipends this year? I see no housing stipend or bonus on my offer letter :/ only see the salary. I’m incoming senior undergrad. #google #intern Salary ~ 7.5K/month Location : remote but with MTV team Update: they’re providing
- Negotiation screwed up! Hi blinders, I was at an offer stage for a company. That company offered 20k less than what I expected but still slightly more than what I currently make. So I emailed saying my current salary is X (provided an inflated number) and match it to it and will accept the offer right away. They got bac
- LM doesn't get it I had an interview recently with LM for a full stack position. It was 100% in the office and I would have a fairly long commute. I told them I had another offer coming that was full remote with a TC of 150k. They said they couldn't get me close to that because I didnt have the required amount of exp
- Top Companies for PM roles in Austin I am looking at switching companies but I wish to remain in Austin, TX. I have a top tier MBA with over 8 years of Product Management experience - what are my options in Austin. I am looking for a minimum base salary of 170k, other compensation can be negotiated.
- I need 401 k advise My 401 k is so down. I keep buying a lot of stock and basically doing 100 percent of my salary right now. What are you guys doing? #investments #401k .I wish I moved to money market to save me from losses. I am not ready to retire anytime soon.
- Career Change Suggestion Hi Blind, I am a Mechanical Engineer with over 7 years of FEA simulation experience. My career seems to have reached a peak for my education but the salary seems to be insufficient. I wish to move to the Software Engineering field. Please share your thoughts. TC: 94K, Michigan. Highest Educatio
- Ex-IB / PE folks who made transition to big tech? Would love to hear about what the process was like for someone who successfully made the transition into a strategy / biz dev / M&A role at a big tech firm from IB/PE role - interview process, comp, etc. Doing a lot of soul searching during quarantine and ready to hop off the finance wagon understa
- Top paying tech companies in Hyderabad India, other than Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft? Currently an sde2 in Amazon India, I want to move to Hyderabad. What are the options other than these companies. Current salary 44 Lakh Indian rupees per anum, including bonus and rsu. Wish to optimise for (in order of priority) 1. work life balance 2. TC / CTC / Money Can consider startups if the
- Have u asked for a salary raise without external offer? I wish to ask my boss to increase my salary given the costly bay area we live in but i don't want to go out, get an offer and ask for counter offer. In that case, i might as well leave. Have u been in such situation? Have u recieved a raise? TC: 180k, Non-eng PM
- BCG Platinion Data Engineer Entry level TC ? Hi Everyone, Currently I have internship offers from BCG Platinion and Amazon for Data Engineer roles. I wish to move towards tech consulting so BCG Platinion seems a good option but I have heard they pay less for entry level. Could anyone please share whats the usual TC for data engineer at BCG P
- vote Rate my Total Comp - Series C Director of Operations I recently joined a Series C startup and now I’m questioning whether my offer is reasonable or not. I wish I had discovered Blind before I had accepted! In a Non Eng Director level role at a startup reporting to C Suite. This is probably closer to a Senior Manager role at much larger companies. Thi
- Google PM on-site Tuesday. Thanks Blinders, wish me luck Been prepping nearly full time for a month. Blind has been invaluable in pointing me to the right resources, interview expectations, and most importantly confirming that Google's culture matches what I'm looking for at my next company. Wouldn't have been as prepared without you all. Wish me luck. I
- link New salary range / pay band comparison tool Hi everyone! Similar to many others here, I often times wished for better salary tools / data so I could more effectively advocate for myself during comp reviews. So I decided to build something. I built a new salary comparison platform to help employees better understand company salary ranges and
- vote After Google onsite interview: salary expectations HR emailed me saying that my onsite interview feedbacks are positive. Next step will be team-matching, also setup a time to chat about timeline and expectations. I think he will ask about my salary expectation. I’ve watched Jeff Sipe’s YouTube video about why you should NOT disclose that before the
- Why are the companies laying off employees? Lay off is bad. Why are they not trying to defer part of a salary so they can retain these employees? I feel so sad to see these employees getting laid off just like that. I can't imagine how much effort these people must have put in doing LC to ace interviews like Uber or Airbnb. Hope you guys stay
- What is my worth? I started my DevOps role in 2018. My TC was $70k with 3% increase every year. 4 years later, my TC is at $80k. I have been quoted externally for base of $130k-160k from small/ growing and large tech companies. I was able to make it to multiple final interview rounds. However, I haven’t been able to
- Designer Salaries + mom perks + great companies I've been working in tech/gaming for about 10 years now. Went from being an artist to Product designer/illustrator. Got locked into a low salary due to my willingness to switch to product design. Let's be real, I make $75k but I know designers make much more than that. I've stuck around at my curren
- Finally passed Amazon online assessment I finally passed the Amazon online assessment after I don't know how many tries. I know a lot of people on here say avoid Amazon like the plague but from the outside looking in, It looks like they build pretty good products. Has Amazon gotten better? I work for a small bank as a programmer I don't
- vote Picking between Google, Meta and Uber in different countries Hey all, I'm currently in the offer/negotiation phase with Google, Meta and Uber I've received L4/SDE2 equivalent with Google and Meta, and L5a at Uber Google is in Bangalore. Meta is in Toronto. Uber is in Amsterdam. I am currently in India. My goal is to move to the US in one year. Getting to
- Jealous of Paternity leaves at FB I had two kids during my tenure at Amazon. During my first kid, Amazon had 0 paternity leaves (pre-2015). During my second kid, Amazon had paternity leaves of 6 weeks, but for that, I had to take a 70% pay cut for my salary. Amazon only pays base salary during paternity leave and with Amazon base wa
- Facebook London E5 Total Saving I am planning to join Facebook in September as E5 engineer. I have been offered following package. Which seems to me a standard package:- Base Salary: 101,000 GBP per annum Sign on bonus: 5,000 GBP Initial Equity Grant: 260,000 USD vesting over 4 years Target Bonus: 15% Relocation Allowance: 13,6
- Salesforce Developer to SDE Total YOE - 3.8 yrs Working as Salesforce Developer (Application Engineer) at Amazon L4 (India) TC - 13.5 LPA (Base) Salary structure similar to SDE1 Background - B.Tech in CSE (2017) Edit: PG-D from CDAC till Feb 2018 Started (April 2018) in MNC and was put in Salesforce Development (tried sw
- Demotivated due to low TC inspite of good work In my third year and the fear of cliff is just crushing me. TC is a disaster (70 LPA) I have some good work on my plate but unable to focus. I am demotivated since there is no SSA or promo in sight either (currently L64 close to 14 yoe). I keep thinking what's the point of all that 'impact' when I w
- Should I move to the Bay Area from Toronto for better TC but worse social? I’m 24M and really enjoy the city life here in Toronto. I go out every Friday night, hit the clubs etc. I live right in downtown and I love how everything is within walking distance. I could move to the Bay Area and work for FAANG and make even more. There isn’t that many companies that pay as well
- FB/G: Grass greener on the other side When I was at FB, its blind channel was full of complaints about crappy code, bad wlb, high stress, etc. and folks advising to switch to Google, Airbnb etc. for a better life. I was there for 4 years, was fed up with the hectic life and moved to Google. Now on Google’s blind channel I see folks co
- Should I give my signing bonus back? I started a new job mid-August and then received a much better offer, and I will be leaving after only two months. I received a $5000 signing bonus when I started with no stipulations that it had to be returned for any reason. Now my employer is asking for it back, while being very transparent that
- Remote work law Bay Area cost-of-living is getting out of hand and commute times are stressful. I think we need a remote work law in California where if an employee requests to work remotely from any location in California, the employer must oBlige. Based on the county where the employee wishes to live in, the empl