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- Negotiating Shopify - Yay or Nay? Non-technical role here. I AM NOT A SWE. Told the recruiter my band was 80k - 110k in negotiations, the recruiter told me the top of their pay band was 90k. Today, a different recruiter (due to timezone differences) came back to me with an offer for upleveling to L5 due to my experience, with an in
- Incompetent Facebook Recruiters ? Had really shitty experience with FB recruiter. Incorrect info presented by him, delay in scheduling follow-up interviews for uplevel (after declining a lower level offer), refusal to divulge comp bands, etc. Is it just me or others have had bad experience with FB recruiters as well?
- Amazon > Google Worked at both. This place is a disaster. Shady incompetent gaslighting managers, callous lazy coworkers who will stab you in the back, no WLB, no perks or fun events, lots of turnover and reorgs. Literally why did I come here and why do people think this is a good company? At least Amazon uplevels
- Interviewing seniors vs juniors, what gives it away? Can you give an example of a question/answer that would uplevel someone? I’ll go first: Customer is complaining the program runs too slow. JR: I would optimize xyz Mid-career: I would profile abc to see where bottleneck is Sr: how fast is it running? How fast is it supposed to run? For me it is
- Microsoft L60 vs L61 expectations I got an offer and I can choose b/w the two. Looking at levels fyi, the TC difference b/w is maybe 20k. After doing some research, some people are suggesting taking L60 over L61(https://www.teamblind.com/post/Microsoft-L61-Atlanta---upleveled-ibbiOZx2). I'm wondering what the expectations are for bo
- What's a L6 and L7 Product Manager for Amazon make in Canada? Pretty lame data out there for Canada. I'm moving to Toronto (for personal reasons) and just finished my loop for L6 for Amazon. Went very well, hope I get upleveled (team sorta implied it). Outside of the bananas, what's a good total TC? Thanks blind(ers)! YOE:12yrs TC: 380 USD #amazon #product #
- Flexport phone interview Hello blinders, Can anyone share ideas for Flexport Staff Software Engineer position Phone interview? Any blind curated leetcode list? I have already failed 5 phone interviews, and really need to get past the phone interview stage. Any help would be appreciated. 10 yes exp Tc: 117k Miserable TC.
- vote Meta IC5 rejection, applied for IC4 Rejected after Meta on-site. Recruiter said I was considered for “a solid IC5”. Initially I was told I was applying to IC4, so they upleveled me at some point. I asked why did they not consider downleveling me to IC4 and recruiter said we didn’t think you would accept that kind of level and comp.
- LinkedIn Offer Match Passed HC at LI a while ago but got downleveled to SE. Now, I have a counter offer from Snap around 275K TC. According to what I've read over here on Blind, there is no way to get this TC with SE title (I might be wrong), probably SSE would. Question: Does LI uplevel the HC decision to do a counter
- ByteDance Non-Eng Negotiation Anyone know about negotiating with TikTok? Got my offer mid last week and I feel like they lowballed me. I evaded their initial request for salary expectations, kinda regretting that now. Emailed them back Friday morning asking for a pretty big boost (and an uplevel), but no response yet. What shou
- vote Should I move forward with Instacart M2 with 1MM TC? Tons of FBers have moved to Instacart, and their CEO & COO are ex-FB VPs. I was not actively looking. Their recruiter reached out to me, discussing potential opportunities, and planned to put me on a call with their Sr Director. I was transparent with recruiter that I make 1MM now as M2, and they
- Tips for a new staff engineer I'm currently an SDE2 at Microsoft, and I got an offer for a staff engineer position at a FAANG company (keeping it vague for anonymity). I applied for senior but was uplevelled based on my interview performance. I have a rare, directly applicable skillet, which definitely helped. I'm super excite
- Dell Compensation - Director/Senior Manager Me: Senior manager at FB in a semi tech role. Looking to change companies as Facebook is a meat grinder. Looking for roles in Texas and came across Dell, seems promising. In the process right now for a senior manager role but really looking for that director title. Any chance of getting upleveled
- Economically speaking, wtf is an engineering level? Why does Google downlevel but Amazon uplevel? Meanwhile, random guy gets his company acquired, and he joins at a way higher level than others In the end, employment should be about supply and demand, so whence cometh the leveling system? Why not just have all engineers the same level but give arb
- Increase level by moving companies Hey all, All I hear are stories of F,G downleveling ppl. Can some of you post stories about how you got upleveled moving companies, how you prepared and/or other things you saw helped you? Also what level is this usually common at?
- LinkedIn TC and team match Just passed HC with LinkedIn a week ago. Got matched to a team for Feed sharing. Anyone know what this means or if the team is high growth/future opportunities? I’m coming in as front end + UI. Wondering what the comp levels are. I have 1.5ish YOE but I’ve done a ton of frontend/fullstack dev. Enou
- Facebook interview process joke After 5 years at Amazon, was put on pivot due to not meeting expectations. To be fair, I completely ignored oncall and project tasks for a month as my father got covid and was ill for a long time. Recently interviewed with Facebook and they had the easiest interviews ever. They are all straight out
- Slack vs. Stripe Offer Eval Hey All, I have 2 competing offers from stripe and slack, and wanted to get yall's thoughts on which one would be better to take: Stripe (L2; Software Engineer): Base: 190k Equity: 120k/year (yearly grant) Bonus: 9% Sign-on: $0 Slack (Sr. Software Engineer): Base: 203k Equity: 64k/year (255k/4 ye
- 8 YoE and got an L4 offer from Google. How to negotiate? Just heard back regarding the interviews and the recruiter said I was cleared for hire as L4. I still haven't seen the TC for the offer yet, but I suspect that it will match or be lower than my current TC. I have a FB E5 interview coming up next week as well How do I negotiate for a higher level at
- Tip for getting decent offer without competing offers YMMV, so take this with a grain of salt. Sometimes you don’t have the leverage you need to negotiate for a better offer for many reasons, so here’s some of my tips: 1. You still want to have offers (even verbal) in hand but they don’t have to competitive. 2. Never release your offer numbers first,
- How to increase my TC to 500k+? For people with > 500k offers please give me some insight. I’ve been stuck at 300k for the past 3 years. After my cliff and stock drop its now at 250k. I want more TC. How do I do that? Here’s my plan: 1. Do all 4 grokking courses. 2. Leetcode practice. And then afterwards I just go for inte
- Google L4 or L5 with 4y9m yoe according to their qualifications, 5 yoe is expected. I'm 4y9m now. Does it make sense to wait another 3 month to interview L5? Or it's minimum and they actually expected more than 5 yoe unless you have really solid background and doing perfect in interviews? The recruiter suggests go with L4 and if
- It takes a village It is so funny to me to hear how important everyone at this company thinks they are. Like one person, one profession can run Microsoft or do someone else’s jobs. Devs think they are more important than anyone else in the company#. GMs think their ICs are the most important.. everyone but their very
- Apple offer negotiation Does Apple expect you to always provide details of competing offers before they come up with a number? I was expecting them to give a number and then negotiate based on competing offers. Do they not give an offer if you give a high expected number? Any tips on the negotiation process specific to App
- How is my Nvidia IC2 offer? Recently recieved an offer from Nvidia. I pushed for IC2 but I'm not sure if I'm being lowballed or not. Currently a graduating senior from a top 10 CS school and have a few competing offers, though primarily from start-ups. I have some experience with system design from leading robotics teams on ca
- Would you take an easy job? Recently I am looking for a job change. Hypothetically, I have these three job offers. 1. Same level as current. Similar work. Honestly I am way overqualified for it. More money than now. Great wlb. But feels career suicidal. 2. Same level but a lot more scope. Well known pip factory. Definitely
- How does Linkedin SE map to Microsoft L61? I see internally folks at Linkedin go from SE to SSE in ~2 years. However, the recruiter mentioned that SSE roles require 4 years of experience. I was wondering how do you’ll feel about an L61 vs SE offer at Linkedin? Is there any way to get upleveled to lower band of SSE instead of SE at Linked
- vote What’s everyone’s experience with coding bootcampers? Joining a very promising startup with a 20% comp increase and very good upside - however I wasn’t upleveled and it will be a lateral change. Decided to check the LinkedIn page and I noticed that like 20% of people came from non-tech backgrounds and went to a bootcamp. Some were even senior and staf
- Constantly changing managers Posting for my friend My friend works at a FAANG and has had a revolving door of managers since shes join 1.5 years ago. She joined as a new grad (ic3) and since then have had 6 different managers (3 left, 2 interim, 1 team switch) including her current manager who just announced they were leaving
- Meta product designer downlevel Just got recruiter call telling me I passed the interview and did really well, and they're giving me L4 role. I'm currently L6 so I feel insulted tbh... Asked what interview feedback led to the downlevel but recruiter couldn't name anything, just saying there's a debrief and based on applicable expe