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- Zoox folks! Did you get Amazon stock after acquisition? How was the deal for you? Do you feel you won or lost money?
- vote Offer evaluation Nuro vs Zoox Zoox L5/L6 This is for L5/L6 SWE Base $240k/yr Signon $80k Amazon stock -$200k for 3 years (20/40/40) ZARS:-120k Tc excluding zars:- $360k (yr 1) Including zars ( according to recruiter $500k) Nuro again L5/L6 Base $230k RSU $900k/4yrs Bonus:-12-15% TC:-500k Edit: ZARS: zoox stock appreciation
- vote Zoox vs Rivian I have offers from Zoox and Rivian. TC @ Zoox is ~ $20k/yr > Rivian over 4 yrs (including ZARS,considering at current value) Until the IPO announcement, the RIVIAN RSU was just on paper but now it changed the equation. Your thoughts on which one has a better TC considering Rivian IPO and ZAR ? Z
- Shall I interview at Zoox or a waste of time? At Waymo being recruited by Zoox. Heard they have both paper money and amazon stock. How does that work? Do you think they will have larger financial upside than Waymo? TC: 370 #Zoox #Waymo
- Zoox Offer Evaluation Offer Evaluation Got an offer from AV startup company called zoox Base Pay:175K Cash Bonus: 20K Amazon RSU: worth 21 shares , 3yr vesting Zoox Stock Appreciation Right: 50K , vesting over 6 yrs YOE: 9-10 yrs Is it a good offer ? Are stock appreciation rights as good as ISO’s ? Anyone know is SAR’s
- vote Zoox offer evaluation This is for L5/L6 SWE Base $230k/yr Signon $80k Amazon stock -$200k for 3 years (20/40/40) ZARS:-100k Tc excluding zars:- $350k (yr 1) Including zars ( according to recruiter $450k) ZARS: zoox stock appreciation rights. Currently valued at $3.6 which is the strike price. You can liquidate anytime
- vote Evaluating Argo AI offer Considering a remote Argo AI offer for SWE II. Currently at Zoox. Argo offer: average yearly TC over 4 years of $380k-$390k at $20B valuation ($200k base, $600k RSU grant, annual + sign on bonuses). TC at Zoox is ~$200k with 2-3 yoe. At Zoox, I really enjoy the interesting work, good WLB, and fri
- vote Offer comparison. Nuro vs Zoox Hi everyone, recently interviewed Nuro and Zoox for their sensor team (hardware) . Got offer from both of them, and in the middle of 1-round offer negotiation. Nuro - L4 Base: $145k / yr Bonus: $17.4k / yr RSU: 15k of Nuro RSU (@$18.27/share) = $274k over 4-yr vesting period = $68.1k / yr TC: $241k
- Zoox or Amazon shares? Curious about what people at Zoox think these days, is it worth joining and how's the morale? Also, do you get Amazon stocks or Zoox shares upon joining?
- Does zoox have a future? I have an offer from zoox and should i negotiate on stocks or salary? Base $150k and 25k shares How far is zoox from even thinking about ipo?
- vote Zoox vs cruise? Joining as a senior for cruise and l4 for zoox as swe. Which company would you join if TC was roughly same? Zoox cliff is 2 yrs. Cruise is 1. Also, Does cruise rsu also automatically liquidate if you quit? Yoe 6, 300k
- Zoox 2.0 offer evaluation Help me figure out this offer at Zoox 2.0 (post Amazon acquisition) in Bay area, CA. MS + 3.5 YOE base: 150k stocks: 75k AMZN (3 yrs vesting) Zoox SARs (ZARs): 45k units sign-on: 20k Current TC: 160k I feel the offered TC is low given that there is no mention of ESPP, 401k match, annual bonus,
- Offer Evaluation - Chassis Structures Engineer New Grad Just got an offer from the Vehicle engineering team with Zoox. Please help me evaluate the offer. Level: Recent grad Education: Master's degree Location: Foster City, CA Base: 110k Amazon RSU: 25k but negotiable to 35k Sign on: 9k relocation: 8k Additional: ZARS (Zoox appreciation reserve stock) 55
- ZAR value in TC ? In addition to Amazon RSU, I am getting Zoox options called ZAR. Recruiter mentioned each ZAR currently values at $1.2, but I wonder whether I would ever be able to sell them ? R they really worth anything and should I even consider them in my TC calculation? Any guidance from existing Zoox employee
- Zoox offer I have an offer from Zoox at Level 4. Any other folks with offers from Zoox recently? The interview went really great, I was told by my sde friends that it is an average offer for California. How flexible are they with the offers? And where do I start negotiating? Base 170k Parent company stock 650
- Let's collectively make a list of autonomos driving companies offerings RSUs Meaning stock options that can be vested today, not depending on IPO. I'll update this post with answers: Nvidia Tesla Uber Lyft NIO Xpeng Zoox
- vote Offer evaluation Hey Blind! Please help me decide on the offers I got offers from Zoox, Lyft , FB and Samsara and Google Zoox : very complicated TC ~ 300k 200k base, 150k Amazon, and It’s own Stock appreciation rights but vest 6 year , core ML Area, very interesting work Lyft 420k TC, even split on Base and RSU
- vote NVIDIA/FB/Aeva/Zoox offer eval Hi, I got these offers and want to see what the Blind community think is the best. I keep the offer at TC level for some anonymity, after I accept one of the offers, will update with details: NVIDIA - ASIC engineer IC4 TC 283k - no annual bonus, but great ESPP that is not included here FB - ASIC
- Workculture at Rivian How’s work culture at Rivian ? Also, are the Rivian’s stocks really worth having it in short term or long term ? Whats the Rivian’s likelihood of being next one of the big EV ? #interview #auto #EV #ElectricVehicle #Tesla #Rivian #Zoox #Waymo #nuro
- vote Offer Evaluation Zoox vs Palo Alto Have two offers that are quite different, one being a public company and one company which is owned by Amazon. Need some feedback mostly on the Zoox offer given that it has quite a few moving pieces Palo Alto - Principal Engineer 210K Base 25K Sign-on 234K RSUs vesting over 4 years 20% Bonus Zoox
- Rivian Verbal Offer Review Hi All! I just got a verbal ADAS TPM offer from Rivian. Need your help in understanding this offer. I currently work at Zoox (acquired by Amazon) as a Software TPM & transitioned from a QA role 1.5 years ago. Total years of experience: 4 years as a QA, 1.5 years as a TPM. Current Compensation: Base
- Zoox appraisal zoox folks, how is your appraisal done? just got an offer letter that has base salary and stocks only. no mention of sign on bonus, annual performance bonus, nothing per say! Do you get more stocks or bonus or only salary hikes at the end of the year? TC: 300k
- Offer evaluation for Rivian Got a verbal verbal from Rivian for an Engineering position and waiting for the official offer letter. Wanted to see if this is good or okayish Rivian offer: Base : 165k Sign on : 16.5k Stocks : 275k /4 YOE : 4 - 4.5 Overall TC : 250k Current offer: Base : 125k Amazon RSU’s : 15 for 3 years Zoo
- Cruise Offer negotitation Please help evaluate GM Cruise offer. Associate Machine Learning Engineer Base: 170k + 34k bonus RSU: $110k (over 4 years) YOE: 2 years before MS and 8 months as an intern post-MS. How to provide data points for negotiation? #compensation #cruise #cruiseautomation #waymo #zoox
- vote Self Driving Car Stocks Which of these self driving car stocks will you buy when they go public? Order of companies based on the 2020 CA disengagement rate data (https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2021/02/09/2020-disengagement-reports-from-california/). Zoox is not listed due to being acquired by Amazon. #selfdrivin
- Evaluate Zoox vs Waymo offer UPDATED Waymo comp: Need feedback on whether to stay where I am vs. jumping to Zoox or Waymo. Currently discussing offers - verbal with recruiter at this point, don't want to start official offer process until I decide to actually pursue. Zoox: TC=325k : L5 / 205k base / 35k signon / 446k RSU (not
- Colleagues please help with your opinion Is it worth leaving your job at big Semi Company for a self driving startup for almost 15 pct drop in cash compensation. Level is L5 current TC is 350k, yoe 14 expected cash comp around 300k excluding stock. Didn't factor in stock as it has no value currently. SDC company is one of Cruise/Argo/Zoox
- Stock options good or not? Hi guys. Asking this for a friend who is not in the community. He recently got an offer from a company called Lucid Motors in California. Apart from some base and relocation, they are giving him around 6k stock options. Since neither of us understands stock options that well, do you think stock opti
- Zoox offer for hardware systems enginner I am going to offered a hardware systems engineer positon at zoox at their “level 5”. Currently I’ve been at Apple as a lead electrical engineer for little less than 2 years and was prevously at Intel for 7 years ( total around 10 years of electrical enginnering and hardware development experience).
- Looks like a bunch of Zoox Millionaires were born last week. I hear the deal closed. All employees got 2.5$ for all vested and unvested shares. Ex #employees got 0.7$ per RSU and option holders got screwed. Meanwhile Sr. Directors and above, even those who joined this year, got 1M$+ as a transaction bonus! J,A and SVPs got 10M$+. #zoox #M&A #amazoox #tech
- Received Autodesk offer w/ only 3 business days to answer Autodesk knows I'm interviewing with other companies, and were very fast to go through the interview rounds and present an offer, giving only 3 business days for me to give an answer. I have my final round Amazon interview very soon, and am at the early interviewing stages w/ Zoom, Roku, Bloomberg,
- Zoox compensation expectation Posting on behalf of a friend. My friend has cleared all interviews at Zoox (bay area) and at the final stage of the hiring process. Can you please share the expectation on base Salary, amazon stock, ZARS, sign on bonus and annual bonus for L4 and L5 (level not yet confirmed)? Experience: 12+ Year
- Which Autonomous Driving offer should I take? Nvidia AV team 280K Cruise 320K Zoox 345K The first two have a lot more cash and the last one is mostly just equity. It doesn’t seems to me that those stock are going to liquidate soon though. So I really don’t know how to compare the number on these offers. They told me that some AV startup will b
- vote please help - Rivian or Amazon Should I gamble with Rivian or just go with Amazon offer? "I accepted both but need to renege on one another so potentially might burn a bridge" Rivian RSU 150k/4, TC 200k Amazon TC 260k first 2 yr, cliff to 210k if no stock appreciation or refresher I know there is an option to join Amazon first
- Zoox offer evaluation L5 offer from zoox. Senior engineer position. Base: 225k Sign on: 50k Amazon RSU: 130k/3 year vesting Stock appreciation rights: 100k shares, two year cliff, 6 year vesting (50% vests after four years) TC: 285k (averaged over three years not including stock appreciation rights) Yoe: 9 post PhD I’
- Help understanding Stock options Hello blinders, asking for a friend. He got an offer from another company that provides stocks as mentioned below, can you please help understand how this works? Subject to the approval by the Board of Directors of ABC, inc. the company will grant you an option under the Plan to purchase X shares o
- Ideas to benefit from joining bonus I recently got an offer from a tech company and here is my offer breakdown Base: 165k Joining bonus: 40k Yearly bonus: 10% of base Rsu: 120k split over 3 years Age: 26 I have no plans to use my bonus as of now and am afraid if i will spend it on something which doesn’t give me any return of value
- Hot self-driving car startups vs. FANG I've begun interviewing with a couple of self-driving car startups and wanted to get people's take on leaving or turning down on offer from a FANG company for the AV startup route. I'd really love to work in the AV space but am concerned if it makes financial sense. Current TC: L5 @ $300k / $180k b
- How to tell ur manager ur changing jobs Our vesting schedule is shit. Our zoox stocks vest over 6 years. And the majority of it we get in the last years. That said, I went and got offers from other companies and it’s a 40%+ TC bump plus sign on. Also, I just got promoted at my job in the past week. I feel bad leaving a really good manag
- Google L4 Program Manager - Hardware ( Pixel, Nest, Home etc) I am going for Onsite in the next few days... the recruiter called yesterday to give me some info and prep for Onsite .. after letting me know who are the folks she touched base on numbers. Her initial numbers are 130K Base, 15% bonus and 100K In stock over 4 years no sign on ... Does this sound rig
- Help choosing between jobs Posting on friend s behalf who does not have an account. Hi guys I am finding it really difficult to choose between different job offers and no this is not a brag of any kind. It is genuinely hard to choose when jobs can’t be compared apples to apples. The following are the options I have: YOE - 3
- Ranking the SWE Technical Bars of Tech Companies I work in tech recruiting (full disclosure: recruited in the past for Google and Uber ATG) and was helping a new recruiter with getting calibrated on profiles. So, I figured I would make a list to share some top tech companies with her while she searched for top Software Engineers (SWEs). But once
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks
- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584
- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health
- vote Which of the following stocks will double fastest? If you were to risk all your wealth in one tech stock which one would it be at this moment?
- all stocks have gone up considerably high but I still lost 40 k due to day trading I would like to invest in longterm stock. Which stock will double in next 3-6 months? holding apple hoping it would run up to 130
- link We need energy that doesn’t destroy the environment Look at this - how can this kind of destruction of natural beauty be allowed? https://imgur.com/gallery/kzEtb7w