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- Is my job worth keeping? I am a recent graduate from a QS ranking top 10 University, not stem major. I started my job as a regional sales manager in a fortune 200 Telecom company for about a month now. I am getting 50k base salary, no bonus or commission until next year since i don't have quota ATM. 401k and fully covered i
- New job, in-debt millenial. Help needed! Hey all, switching jobs and want to make the right step towards my finances. Looking for advice on where to payoff debt first and start saving. Getting about $50k gross is cash within the next month. Haven’t been the most fiscally responsible, fairly average at best. Biggest issue is student loans
- vote Should I sell or rent I have Single family home that I will pay off in one years time. Value currently around 1.4 million. Thinking of relocating somewhere with lower cost of living. Should I rent the house out. I think I can get about 3800 per month. I have around 200k that I could put for my next house as down payment
- vote Stay at Apple or leave for VMWare or Airtable? Apple ICT4: $210K base ~14% bonus (not written anywhere, but personal historical data points) ~$120K RSUs per year (~$480K unvested - including appreciation) TC: ~$370K/year Refreshers were around $80-100K per year VMWare Staff: $240K base 17% (supposed to be pretty solid to expect from what I'm he
- Over extend on house I have the assets to cover? I currently earn 800k a year in TC for the next 2 years, with much of it coming from stock appreciation. I am not counting my wife's TC of 100-200k. I current have 1.7MM in stock (not unvest RSU), 350k in cash and bonds, and 200k in retirement accounts. I want to put 470k into a 2.1MM house in LA.
- Got my first offer above 100k, living in LATAM First of all, thank you God. This has been an amazing journey. I'm really grateful for this opportunity. Thank you Blind community for all the information, tips and discussion, you guys are amazing. I'm a Software Engineer from Latin America and just got an offer of +135k total comp. It's my firs
- Aetna Data Scientist Offer Evaluation TC 140 Stay or go? Verbal offer came in for 120 base, seems max for their “data scientist” pay band, but where I am now we just hired a junior dude with no tech stack at 125. My current position is a lot of everything, but very little DS/ML (all devops, DE, SWE, and project managment/biz users re
- Salary for creative position (video/multimedia producer) in tech start-up? Posting because I generally have a hard time finding concrete salary numbers for my position ("multimedia producer"). It's uncommon enough that Blind just gives me the numbers for all "creatives". I graduated this past May and have been working at a Boston area tech startup since then. My base pay
- Spouse is depressed..help! Spouse is always stressed and thinking about work. It has been going on for 10+ years and I am tired of this. Asked spouse to seek help, but spouse is not doing that. Spouse says can't imagine continuing to work for 10+ years. I can't imagine continue living like this for 10+ years. We have kids. At
- Advise please - ServiceNow final round I am in final round (I guess, as I have been asked for submitting documents by the HR mgr after 4 tech rounds) of a Staff/IC4 level role in Hyd, India. I agreed to relocate from Blr. during interviews. I was out of India for the last 6 years for my current role - explains my low current TC. Please
- Affordability calculation Our household TC is $800k. We have a little over $1.5 million in cash + investments, and $500k in retirement accounts. We’re considering buying a house at about $3 million - $3.2 million. We worked out the math and it seems like we can afford it - monthly mortgage + tax+ insurance payments will be
- Home Loan: More debt or less given Inflation? Interested in your thoughts… Right now interest rates at ~4.5% and inflation at ~8%. A recession might be ahead of us. Now, I‘m about to finance a house and I’m wondering if I should put down 10% only (or 14% to avoid jumbo loan) instead of 20% and let the other 10% work for us in the stock market
- vote Buy Home VS Rent ! Combined Tc - 450k Y - 6 We have combined savings ~ 240K with Rsu - 150k, 401K-150K We have been renting for a while but plan to have kid by next year, will have parents visit us for at max 4-5 months. Also I am on H1B so we are thinking to move north(canada) in 3 years. PR process yet to start.
- Help me decide I was working as a consultant in financial institution and got an offer for finTech in Austin. But they low balled pretty bad, and I still accepted as it was a full time, good benefits and they supporting my H1. TC offered: 95k After i relocated in Austin, I got an offer from American National Insu
- Keeping $2M house in early retirement We have a mortgage free house in Seattle area (east side) worth $2M and we are paying $20K in property taxes + insurance. It is a nice house in a desirable neighborhood, and we love living in it. The house price has been growing at a rate of 9-10% over the past 9 years and I am not sure how long it
- When to move on I've been with my first company for about 3 years. It's a small consulting company, and I've learned a lot. My responsibilities have grown as well, to the point that my project managers have almost no customer interactions past passing them off to me. If the project needs more than one developer I'm
- vote Stick with USAA or go Startup? I was approached by a recruiter with an insurance startup a couple months ago and wound up getting a PM offer. The base salary would be about 30k higher with the startup + a 40k equity bonus at 10k a year for 4 years. However, there's a lot of benefits at USAA that I wouldn't get at the startup like
- Need advice from people with startup experience… I work at a Series A that is highly unprofitable and burning cash, therefore will not survive without B funding. Six weeks ago, the company did a 10% layoff while alluding that B is almost closed so “no worries.” One month ago, the COO & CFO were fired, and the CEO announced the B is closed so no wo
- When is it worth the paycut to move to another company? Hey guys, I got referred to doximity for a PM position and the recruiter said the range is '110k-130k maybe 140k'. I currently make 155k at an early stage startup (<30 people). Assuming I get an offer from Doximity, I could be potentially taking a 15k paycut. What would you guys use to assess
- Unwaxed lives matter too. There is an increasing level of distrust and hate towards the unwaxed community. Their lives matter too. The unwaxed community believe in the natural order, as God intended us to be. We don't want to modify our bodies in unnatural ways. There was once a time when the unwaxed body was celebrated an
- Texas Instruments HealthCare IVF #TexasInstruments Will TI join Apple, Gates Foundation, BCG, and other industry leaders to start covering elective IVF and preimplantation genetic screening? With the increase in ability to screen for more and more genetic abnormalities (some quite personal to myself) that can protect our future children from pain,
- link POLA/POLB dispatchers & CDL A drivers Please email at HR@ngltrans.com [JD] NGL Transportation has been serving the industry leading clients for over 12 years. With the proven quality services, we are looking for the best candidate who will roll up the sleeves and jump in our fast growing business. Job Duties (not limited to): Dispatc
- HSA vs LPFSA Quick question here for you awesome folks as I am sure I am not the only one who has faced this before. I am in a situation where my son has some large medical expenses ongoing and coming up in the next few months. I contribute the max to HSA and LPFSA. However I have finished off my HSA already sin
- Evaluating Contracting BofA vs FT JPM I’m currently contracting at BofA for $70/hr. But I have an offer from JPM for $145 TC. The issue is that BofA has a policy where, as contractor, I need to have a 3 month cool-down(leave) every 2 years. Which I’m currently on. Add to that I have no PTO, no Holidays or sick days, no 401k match, $40
- vote The Artificial Labor Shortage HR departments across the industry, particularly non-tech, have begun to adopt the FAANG interview process and with it comes the task of translating alien dictionaries and trapping rain water for your local insurance company. As more companies hire people who leave after 2 years, they have to const
- vote Offer Valuation #dataanalytics #offerevaluation I got an offer from a start up (post Series D) for a data analytics role. They offered me 170K base and 30K options (worth at about $70k now, 4 years). There’s no year-end bonus, some benefits in 401K and health insurance, but overall not as great as my current benef
- Buying a Single Family Home Hey all looking for advice as I’m trying to purchase a 4b 2b house in the Pleasanton/dublin/San Ramon bay area. My wife and I wanted to upgrade from our 2b 2b condo. The loan amount for it would be 670k (rest is downpayment which is over 20%). Monthly payment would come out to 4300 with property ta
- Don't make assumptions about people One of my child's classmate's father drives a tech company shuttle. For the sake of anonymity I won't say which company. He told me that he has been living in the bay area for like 25 years and moves between the bay area and Sacramento every 8-10 years, timing recessions. His net worth is in the 7
- vote AMZN offer vs. MSFT offer comparison for 1.5 yoe (POLL) My friend got the offer. I ask him to avoid Amazon, and just go to Microsoft. Just want to get more data points. Offer details after negotiation: Amazon L4: base: 131k; signon: 40k/32k; stock: 100k (5/15/40/40). TC is 176k for 4 first years. Microsoft 60: base: 127k; signon: 25k/15k; stock: 130k (
- vote Should I buy a house for 2 years? I’m an SWE from Seattle area. Just got married and wife is a doctor in East LA area (inland empire) pursuing her MD residency. 2.5yrs until she graduates. Both of us are on independent visas. Since WFH is possible for me, I am going to move to stay with her. We are only going to be living in this
