- link 3 YOE - 5 Offers - Seattle I’ll lead with this: I’m a straight white guy with a neutral-American accent and US citizenship, so I have a lot of unfair advantages in life that not everyone is lucky enough to get. Blind was a big part of what inspired me to seek out higher compensation and gave me confidence in my negotiation,
- Two minutes of gratitude to Blind Thanks Blind community. I know a lot of posts here are shitposting and whining and some racist trolls thrown in but fwiw Blind really came through for me during interview and offer negotiation process. Wanted to share some of my experience here since it seems like Blind lately has lost a little stea
- Pinterest and Zoom both IPO! What does Zoom even do again? Lol. Surprised to see that it's doing better than Pinterest today. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/zoom-is-worth-more-than-pinterest-after-their-ipos.html
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and industry lounge. - New Grad Referral 2020- former Uber Intern Hi everyone, I'm looking for SWE new grad referrals for Lyft, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Robinhood, Twitter, Snap, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Pinterest, and Stripe. I am a MS student at UC Berkeley with focus on databases and computer systems. I also interned at Uber this past summer but given the recent si
- Should I go to Snap？ I got offer from Airbnb, Uber, Pinterest all SDEII. But Snap give me senior title and 25% more total comp comparing to those companies, real cash and stock. I have not problem with the team. But Snap can just survive another 12 months right? Die or become profitable. I am struggle.
- Pinterest L5 TC. Should I have pushed for more? Accepted an offer for an L5 role at Pinterest. Could I have pushed for a higher TC? Base: ~200K Stock: 1.1M Signing: 50K YOE: 7
- AMA - How I got multiple offers from FAANG and Tier 1 companies I see a lot of folks asking about interview preparation and topics to study for the SWE roles at FAANG. Here's a list of topics that I studied and managed to get offers from Facebook, Apple, Lyft, Linkedin, and Amazon. If you study these topics and once you develop a knack of identifying patterns an
- Facebook SWE intern looking for full time referrals I got a return offer from Facebook for full time after interning as a SWE this summer. I have strong interviewing skills and I am looking at referrals to companies that could beat Facebook TC (118/160/70) Apple Cruise Automation Lyft Palantir Pinterest Quora Robinhood Slack Snap Sumo Logic Twilio
- link RSU sale strategy after IPO lockup period expiration Hey guys, My ex-company (Pinterest) IPO'ed this year and all my RSUs vested on the IPO date (mid-April-2019). This is the first time I'll be receiving a decent amount of money in bulk so I'm trying to read up on how to approach liquidating my vested RSUs. I'm hoping this thread can yield a good disc
- Looking for Summer 2020 Internship Referral Hello fellow blinders, Rising Junior here at top 20 CS school looking for internship referral at the following companies: Stripe Lyft Airbnb Apple LinkedIn Quora Pinterest Dropbox Robinhood Cloudera Amazon Made it to final stage with Lyft and Google last year (Headcount issues) and currently have
- Offering and looking for referrals I am a SWE at facebook (this account if from an internship at uber) and I am looking for referrals at LinkedIn, Google, Stripe, AirBnb, Pinterest, Robinhood and any good pre-IPO companies. Also, have an interest in Fintech and hedgefunds. More than willing to offers referrals at Facebook aswell.
- pre-ipo companies what are some good pre-ipo companies to join especially ones that do stock buy backs. top of my head I can think of airbnb robinhood anymore ppl can think of? edit: not pinterest thanks for pointing out!
- Did I make a mistake by not joining Pinterest? Ok, so at the time I got an offer as New Grad, Pinterest valuation was $7.19 at estimated $14 billion valuation and I was awarded 36000 RSUs and could have negotiated even more but didn’t try cause I wasn’t joining. Now they’ve IPO’d and I’m confused. Their stock price is $24 at $9 billion valuatio
- Offer Negotiation Got multiple verbal offer without numbers for Sr software engineer. Kept them in hold saying, will finish all my on-sites and discuss the numbers. Question: is that a gud strategy or should start negotiating with the ones already has offers? Any other suggestions with negotiation? Offer: Box, Cred
- Pinterest L5 offer, room for negotiation ? Got the following L5 offer from Pinterest: Base 202k RSU: 945k over 4 years Sign on: 55k Yearly bonus: 0 Any room left for negotiation ?
- Laid Off Out Of Money I was laid off 4 months ago at the worst time. I have a 3 year old, and it has been an extremely trying time for our family. I have been studying all day, everyday since the day I was laid off, but I’m running out of money. I’m currently pre offer for two great companies, but would feel more stable
- Should I work for Uber or Pinterest? I have an offer from Uber for Software Engineer II, 147k base + 13k target cash bonus + 52k target refresher RSU + 240k RSU over the usual 4 year vesting schedule schedule. Do those numbers seem ok? I’m expecting an offer from Pinterest as well in the coming days. Better or worse place to work tha
- New Grad Referral for FAANG Companies - ex AMZN SDE Intern I have just completed my summer internship at Amazon (got return offer) and am looking for referrals to some other good companies. Solved 230+ problems on LC, + more on InterviewBit and Hackerrank Good projects and prev. won 3 hackathons MS CS Degree I am looking for referrals to: Google Facebook
- FB vs. Google Got L5 offers from both FB/Google with comparable numbers, TC ~$400k plus $100k sign on. Currently L5 ML engineer at Pinterest. YOE: 6-8. TC is slightly higher but wanted to diversify and save commute. Currently favoring G based on the superior engineering culture. How hard is it to negotiate a
- Dropbox and Uber onsite experience Thought I would share my onsite experience with dropbox and uber. Currently at FB E6 with TC ~570k. FB (7 YOE) is good but wanted to give a shot outside and see how things are (also nothing wrong to keep to those interview skills sharp) Dropbox interview process is fairly straight forward. Phone sc
- Refer please: Linkedin, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, AirBnB, more Hi guys, I cleared & got an offer SDE I from Amazon in HQ today. I'd like to interview with other companies and compare offers. Here's some of my info: - Leetcode: 302. Easy 152, Medium 120, Hard 30 (many medium questions are becoming easy tags now). - Companies: Linkedin, Microsoft, Apple, Face
- link Will San Francisco’s housing market be overwhelmed by IPO millionaires https://www.curbed.com/2019/3/19/18271522/san-francisco-real-estate-tech-ipo-airbnb-uber Over the next two years, some of the decade’s biggest tech firms, among them Pinterest, Uber, and Airbnb, are expected to go public, with Lyft alone just announcing it would seek a value between $21 and $23 bil
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and industry lounge. - vote Pinterest vs Facebook offers 4YOE, live in SF, SWE Facebook Base: 170k Bonus: 10% Stock: 350k Refresher: 87.5k Signon: 75k Pinterest Base: 175k Bonus: 0% Stock: 430k Refresher: 95k Signon: 55k
- Linkedin vs Pinterest offer eval base, bonus, stock, sign-on Linkedin 180k, 10%, 400k, 55k, senior level (equivalent to l4 at other companies so please stop discussing this particular matter) Pinterest 163k, 0%, 560k, 40k, (l4, sde2, whatever) YOE is somewhere between 0 and 5 years. Which is better? Teams are equally interesting
- Normal people like me can’t buy a house in Bay Area anymore With Lyft IPO few thousand millionaires going to storm the housing market . The Bay Area home prices will go up and up .. Next Uber, Slack, Pinterest, Postmates etc
- Harsh Job hunt story - 11/11 Rejections Sometimes it gets so tough. I have a friend of mine who is looking for job as a masters new grad international student with 2 yoe outside US before masters. She also has an offer from the company where she interned. And to tell things in perspective- she was the first one to get the internship offe
- Eight Onsites For the past three months, I’ve had eight on-site interviews and I only managed to get an offer from Symantec (don’t really want to join them). Has this ever happened to anyone else? Assuming all things equal (not douchebag, not arrogant, just completely normal guy), how can one be good enough to pa
- Which unicorns are worth joining for massive upside now? With Pinterest having filed for an IPO alongside Lyft, Uber, and Slack, it's a little too late to "get in on the ground floor". With that in mind, what up-and-coming startups are worth joining now that might net a large cash-out after a few years of earning shares? Off the top of my head, Airbnb
- link Pinterest IPO Ready Congratulations PinStars -- 250 million active users https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/pinterest-puts-an-ipo-on-its-pinboard-hiring-goldman-sachs-and-jpmorgan-to-lead-an-offering-this-year/
- Lyft vs Pinterest vs Square Hi! I have offers from Lyft, Pinterest and Square for L5(senior engineer), 9 years of experience. The compensation is pretty even (around 180k cash and 10k bonus), though I plan to negotiate some raise. I’m trying to figure out what to choose and the choice is not obvious for me at all. My main requ
- Google L6 Engineer Offer I have seen some recent posts about Google lowballing offers. Anyone willing to share what the compensation breakdown for an L6 engineer is or what recent offers have been? Also, does Google match or consider current compensation from a pre-ipo company like Pinterest to factor into their offer? Di
- Next career move - Pinterest , Cruise Automation , Gusto Considering moving to Pinterest, Cruise, Gusto. I like all three for different reasons. Don’t have numbers yet. Just a congrats message from the recruiter/HM. Not optimizing for comp anyway. Wanted to get a pulse from engineers working at these places on how their careers have progressed. Would you
- vote Google vs Pinterest 4 yoe at Google already, seeing a 4 year cliff. Got an offer from Pinterest. Google came up with a counter offer (effective at year end refresh) but still 10%lower as comp team wouldn't completely match pre ipo companies. Both places attract me in some ways. PM role. Google: stable, very recently o
- Getting discouraged I have about 5 years work experience and L63 at MS. Recently I've been interviewing in the bay area. I've spent almost 2 months now preparing for interviews (EPI book most problems chap 5-15 and recently started leetcode). I can solve many problems at home but getting rejections! I know 1 interview
- wanna join one of those pre-IPOs Hey guys, I wanna search new opportunities in the new year, preferably join in one of those pre-IPO companies, like Uber, Pinterest, Lyft and so on. Anyone can help with the referral. I am looking for SDE position. Thanks! TC-180k
- Offer rejecting after accepting I got an offer from a FAANG for 130/30/85 and I accepted it as I thought I won’t anything better from another big company but they did with 145/50/185 that’s a clear 40k TC difference. (1.5 years experience) Do you think it’s worth burning bridges as I am still in early stages of my career? How mu
- Snap vs Pinterest Snap: L4 190k base 750k RSUs 75k bonus 180k target yearly refresher Pinterest: Concrete offer pending, L4 or L5 so likely 300-400k TC. Snap is doing rough, but where could I learn and grow the most in 1-2 years? What looks best on a resume?
- vote Pinterest vs. WeWork vs. Lyft Data scientist role (4 YoE). TC all in the ballpark of 350k~400k. Pinterest and Lyft giving RSUs, vesting in 4 years, while WeWork stock options and vesting in 5 years. Any advice on growth (both personal and company), IPO potential, how strong the team is, company culture, etc.?
- The U.S. economy added just 20,000 jobs in last month. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected a gain of 180,000 Are we entering the recession ? is it the wrong time for Lyft IPO ? What will happen to Uber, Pinterest, Slack IPOs if the stock market tanks ?
- Which offer to choose? All annual TC offers are based on current stock price or valuation Huawei Us: 350k Pinterest: 295k Linkedin: 300k Machine learning heavy, mix with coding
- PAUL vs FANG Which will have high TC in 2 years? Edited: Pinterest/Airbnb/Uber/Lyft. These 4 pre-ipo unicorns are stealing prestige and talents from FANG. Could Paul become new Fang?
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and industry lounge. - vote Apple vs Dropbox vs Twitter vs Pinterest, evaluating offers for SWE Got offers from Apple, Dropbox, expecting offers from Pinterest and Twitter. Tc is almost same ~320k, YOE 9
- Twitch vs Snapchat Twitch : L5 Snapchat: L4 Levels start at L1 at Snap, and L4 at Twitch, so Snap is giving me the more senior role. Still waiting on offer details, but from initial conversations, Twitch TC will be ~230-250k the first year and Snap will be ~380k. Both roles would be in the Bay. Twitch gives Amazon
- How much signing bonus does Uber give? Current offer (L4): 155k base + 480k in RSUs over 4 years + 15k annual bonus + 55k refresher over 3 years = ~$310k 2-3 YoE. Have competing offers from Google, Pinterest, and Airbnb. Airbnb is slightly higher, Pinterest lower, no numbers from Google yet Looks like I’m maxed out on base and equity,
- Pinterest files for IPO Seriously, who still uses Pinterest? I don’t know anybody who uses their website. And I know plenty of people “planning their wedding or their next vacation” lol. I know I’m biased, but my point is their product seems to be stuck in 2013 and doesn’t try to re-invent itself. How are they going to st
- Should I move to uber? Currently working at Google as L5. Feeling a little frustrated by the boring work and politics but would like to say it's still tolerable to me. Now it's my 4th year and yes there will be cliff on my TC soon. Also due to multiple reasons I am feeling extremely burnout so I spent some time to have a
- Paper money value Hey fellas grinding away at AirBnB, Uber, Lyft, Pinterest and others previously in similar companies. What do you do with your vested RSUs/options worth paper money? Is it worth the wait till these companies IPO or get acquired?How do you buy house or any property with this paper money? Folks consi
- link Lyft is wildly unprofitable and lost $911 million last year https://www.businessinsider.sg/initial-public-offering-how-unprofitable-companies-fared-2019-3/ Lyft went public Friday at a valuation of more than $20 billion despite racking up a loss in excess of $900 million in 2018. The company is just the first in a series of unprofitable “unicorns,” or priva
- Pinterest offer low? Base $140k, sign on $10k and $55k RSUs per year (RSUs over 4 years). Relevant yoe 5y. I feel like this is low from other posts I've been tracking. This is a business role that I'd say is equivalent to product manager even though the title is not exactly this. What do you guys think? How much higher
- Get promoted in 6-8 months or switch to bigger company? I've been at a ~120 person sized startup for a year now as a software engineer. Yoe: 3.5 years. We're doubling in size every 1.5 years While I get good work and see a path for promo this year, I don't think I get paid as well (160k + 30k worth of options at current valuation). I have setup onsites