- Interview Cycle: Facebook M1, Google L7, Microsoft L68, and Local Public Company Hello all. I recently interviewed for positions at a local public company, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft and promised in another thread to recount the experiences, since there’s not a lot of Blind info for the experienced/higher level folks. So I don’t have to GTFO, TC is currently $396k (was $5
- Am I underpaid? VP of Product at pre series A startup TC 100k 1% equity (4 year vest) At will what should TC be? what should equity be? is employment agreement standard at this stage?
- Evaluate this startup offer Early VC stage military defense startup, 20+ employees 90k + 0.2% equity Previous: FPGA Engineer @ Northrop Grumman, MS + 3 YOE TC 90k Edit: current valuation - $75 million.
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and industry lounge. - Offer seems too good to be true First post! Currently a Health and Welfare Consultant with TC 100k with a global broker got an offer with a health startup for 90k with stipends on office and internet, corp cc, equity and 100% remote with traveling too good to be true?
- link [AMA] Interview tips after a recent round of offers (380~500k) TLDR: Offers ranging 380k~500k from Facebook, Uber, and 2 other companies. Non-exceptional IC with 5 years of experience. Interview tips are nuanced and its your loss if you don’t read. ### About me ### Software engineer with 5 yoe in the bay. B.Eng (not comp sci) in a well-known school. Mostly se
- FANG vs PhD in AI with own startup So im currently slated to start at FB this spring and will be on track to make ~200k+ new grad in comp. If you go on cscareers, all the children will decry phd routes as non optimal, which i agree, given you just return to fang anyways and dont do shit in your life. But right now AI startups ran b
- Signs of a healthy startup? I'm eyeing this startup which is in series C. They got 100 million downloads for their product and 50% customer growth increase for 2019. Founders already sold a previous startup couple years ago. They have 3 offices. I'll be number 150. Are these decent enough stats? What other indicators do you
- What’s the TC range for a Senior Product Manager or Director of Product in India? Currently working at a FANG and thinking of moving back. Came to the US for grad school after undergrad and have never worked professionally in India so I have no frame of reference. For folks in the US and in a similar position as me, what would be a good TC(at an established company) or TC+Equity
- 900k (illiquid) TC but severely burned out Joined an early stage startup a few years ago when it was 20 employees and the business has been doing well with 300 employees now and valued at 500M. But I’m super burned out and there’s no way to fix it, no changing team, nothing else. I dread going into work every single day and am depressed all
- Do I leave my startup? I was employee #2 at my startup, which is on the brink or closing a solid Series A. I am a product manager but am suffering from bad micro management, which is stemming from the CEO instilling that type of culture. My manager may have a PhD complex and is very difficult to work with. I am applying
- Offer Expectations TL;DR *** Is it extremely unreasonable to ask for 220K base and 370K TC? *** Long version: A famous profitable startup with valuation in the neighborhood of 4B is asking me for TC expectations and I’m conflicted. I have two competing offers and I’m expecting a third one soon, all from big public
- SF startup salary - fintech Title : Sr SWE YoE: 5 after college, 6 in total Salary: 147k+10k signing or 155k base w/o signing, performance bonus 20% + equity Location: Financial district, SF It's a FinTech company. They're an early startup(about 1 year old) but already got the product running and generating revenue. So i feel
- What’s your startup comp? Startup comp has a lot of ambiguity so trying to check actual offers to help make a decision. Stage/Role/Base/Bonus/Equity(% or worth)/YOE Mine: Series A, Director Eng, 160k, no bonus, 0.5%, YOE 10, Bay Area. Also: Employee 15
- is it a good time to join startups? I’m currently SDE at a F100 company(nontech) with nice WLB and decent package. A startup that’s in A round just offered me a senior(potential lead position once they hire more) position with 20% extra base and some equity. Should I give up the comfortable F100 job and go into startup? F100 pros: n
- Equity vs Salary Have you ever stayed in a role where you were underpaid but had good equity, and had it pay off? I’m holding on hoping my equity will mean something, but I’m also underpaid so I’m not sure staying at my well-positioned startup will be worth it.
- New to SF, how to hire ex Uber SWE? I recently moved to SF. How do I go about hiring ex Uber SWE for my startup? 120k-140k TC, 0.05% - 0.6% equity.
- Equity at Startups Trying to understand how equity component works at startups. I would guess there is a vesting schedule for the equity just like the big firms have RSU vesting. Also what happens if you want to jump the ship in 2 years time before they go public? Is there a way to sell you stake?
- Stay or leave for startup Current comp: 85k 2k yearly bonus 10% 401k great environment for everything. 5 min commute. love coworkers and everything but slow pace maybe im not learning as much as i could with a little more stress new startup offer: 105k salary 5k signing some equity no match 401k and 1hr commute but no commu
- vote Lowballed by Google(EDIT: Google pays up) EDIT : Updated communication from Google; see bottom edit Location : India YoE : 3 Offer : L4, 50k USD(35L INR) Competing : Microsoft L61, ~60k(42L INR)(65k/45L including 10% perf+reloc) Current : 50k(43k cash+ options; series H startup). This is a core data science engineering team that I'm reall
- What’s fair TC at startups (pre series C)? Am I being lowballed? My TC at Uber was ~500k (at the time i signed the offer letter), and i’ve received comparable offers from other unicorns. Google / facebook / netflix / etc all offer around this range for senior 5b at uber. I interviewed for some pre series C startups in LA, SF and NY but their TC offer is only aro
- vote Will you prefer a 100% work from home even if it means 20% lower pay Serious Question asked by someone who is planning a startup in the SF bay area. I guess his USP is less cash up front but you employees will make money via IPO. Given the commute and WLB costs, how may would accept this business model. Edit: US time zone working hours. $180K + Benefits +0 .4% equit
- Moonshining on personal startup idea while working at big tech company I work as a SWE for a big tech company that is a household name. A few friends and I have an idea for a startup that we’d like to pursue in the evenings/weekends, but my contract says that I cannot own above a certain % of equity in another company, and I interpret certain parts of it to mean that I
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and industry lounge. - Equity & rise counter-argument Hey guys, I have a question about compensation and equity: every time someone asks my boss for a rise he replies you have equity and your equity is growing so that's your raise, what is a good counter-argument for this? I am okay with my rise to be equity or cash Context: The startup is 3 years ol
- Perfect TC, remote job, but I want FAANG: am I crazy? I was a very early employee at a startup that was fully remote from the beginning. The startup did well, and now my comp is pretty high, ~800k. The 800k is based on the last preferred share price (Series E late stage), so a big part of it is still illiquid, but my base of 250k is pretty good and I h
- Unsure what to do about Amazon offer I recently interviewed at Amazon for SDE L5 but ended up getting an L4 offer for ~190k TC in NYC. My current TC is theoretically ~200k at a startup if bonus gets paid out, which I see as unlikely due to company performance, so realistically 150k plus a ton of useless equity. 2.5 yoe with no prior F
- I have the biggest golden handcuffs: startup equity I was an early employee at a startup and would really like to leave, but I’ve done the math on TurboTax just now and exercising my vested options would incur into a payment of 240k between exercise cost (40k) and AMT payment on the hypothetical gain (200k). The math is unfortunately correct and matc
- My manager suggested me to leave?! Here’s the deal. I was a very early employee at a startup and as a result the value of my equity package grew significantly in the past 3 years, to the point where my TC is now around 900k/y (200k of which is base). Obviously it’s not liquid, but in the past the company has offered limited buybacks
- vote Lowballed by Google India, UXE 5 YoE, need advise Hi helpful folks, So here is my situation: I just received an offer from Google for a UXE. I am psyched, but the numbers are way too low I think. Regarding the interviews, I didn't bomb the technical ones. Rest interviews went well. Also, I was told by the HR that it's a borderline case and henc
- Should I stop climbing the ladder? I’m currently a software engineer at a well known large tech company (left airbnb a while back), but all I do is pretty boring stuff. I’m paid around 150k base and the equity is about 80k per year at this point. I’ve wanted to pursue my own projects / startups for a while, but I keep getting pulled
- Moving to company with lower title and pay? Hello Blind, I could really appreciate some honest career advice. I have been at a startup since its early days, and the startup is now pretty successful (late stage enterprise-focused startup in the bay with 300+ employees). I started as SWE writing a lot of code and systems from scratch, product
- Can I give interviews after saying yes to one offer So I started interviewing last month just to test the waters. To my surprise I cracked the first interview I gave at Expedia and two small startups (not considering, gave for experience) I have an amazon and yelp onsite that needs to be schduled but expedia wanted me to decide by last week so I sai
- Miserable at work due to manager I feel my life is insanely miserable, I dread waking up every single weekday and weekends are just an anticipation for the crap that’s going to come on Monday. My manager is horrible, she is the most untalented, uninspiring, political and bureaucratic non-leading leader I’ve ever met in my career,
- I rejected an offer from UBER in mid 2013... I rejected an offer from UBER in 2013 because I thought it was overvalued and not a startup anymore ( Yes that was stupid). I do not know the exact numbers but salary was much lower than what I was making. Ended up joining a smaller startup with good paper equity that did not go anywhere . Any one f
- Equity Diluted @ Startup Hi Blind Community! This is my first post. Basically I wanted to vent about how me and my teammates who worked for a start up were finessed by the CEO. We built 3 apps from scratch with a promise that we'd get X% of the company each, but we were naive and didn't know that the shares we signed a con
- Choosing between leaving and staying Current company: TC 77k raised to 88k in november-december. love the team, commute is almost non existent. work is super chill maybe a little too slow pace. get to work on anything i want bc manager loves me. startup 1 offer: 120K TC, but super small team. was a team of three but left due to medica
- link Another data point on industry hire in the bay ..great read :) Found this post on Reddit and seems really helpful . Just posting it here . ————///——————///——————///——/ Hi everyone, I just went through a round of interviews and wanted to share a data point. I wanted to share some interview tips that you may not have seen before. I'll also answer questions in A
- Is this a good L5 offer from Google? Should I take more RSU or a Signing Bonus I have an offer from Google for L5 PM in Southern California for $265K (150 / 15% / 370k) + $30K in first year signing bonus. I'm wondering: 1) Is this a good offer? It feels low based on my research, but most of the data out there is for Mountain View. 2) I have the option to forego the signing b
- Compensation comparision I have offers from 3 different startups and not sure which one to go with YOE: 8 offer 1: Zume Salary: 180K + 10K signin bonus RSU: 5000 (not sure how to evaulate RSU's from a start up) offer 2: Globality Salary: 185K Stock Options: 25K offer 3: salary: 175K Equity: 0.2% whats your opinion guy
- How much did you make in your IPO or acquisition as a non executive In startups we are all sold to take a lower paycheck and we could make it big but all my data points point to non executives usually making out with the same if not less than working at FAANG Here are my data points. All acquisitions by major corporations or unicorn companies. Acquisition 1 - noth
- Worth switching to FAANG for less comp? Hello Blind, I am severely burned out and depressed by my current job situation, so I hope I could get some wise advice. I have 8yoe and I was an early employee at a startup that is growing quite well. As a result, my compensation is significantly high due to valuation increase, and I am currently
- Why some swe don’t care about comp? I work at a startup with these couple brilliant 10X engineers, much more talented than me and with more experience than me. Yet, I know they make 30% less than me and 25X less equity (!) despite having joined in the same time span. They say they don’t care about comp, they care about doing cool stu
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and industry lounge. - Should I accept this offer? Advisor shares of 0.2% vesting over 2 years during seed as part time. After raising series A joining in leadership position (head of data or CIO) 1-2% equity that vests over 4 years. this is on top of the advisor shares. Salary will be probably a little over $200k. Startup revenue is $85k a year
- negotiating equity at a startup/ help me evaluate this offer hi. current tc- 210 seattle area offer- 240 / 75 over 4 years with 1 year cliff blah blah blah in downtown sf they are currently valued at 3bn and they gave me a load of bullshit about how this is a 30bn company etc 75 still seems crazy low- is my gut correct on that or is this a reasonable rate
- Am I wrong in not wanting kids? Hi I am a 32yo male and, for as far as I can remember, I never wanted to have kids, it has always been firm in my mind. I feel they are a massive expense (at least in the coastal US) and a terrible limiter of my personal freedom. Most of my acquaintances who have kids seem very happy to pour all t
- Key startup employees: how was your retention package at exit? I’m in the position of being a very early SWE at a startup (employee #3, startup is now 270 people) that might have a successful exit in a couple years, and I’ve been advised from various people (outside the company) that I should stay until the end because there will likely be an additional pot of
- Start up vs McKinsey Looking for opinions on which offer to go with. Startup: 170k, 4% equity, 30k sign on. Profitable and raising a seed. McKinsey: low 200k. Senior EM.
- Startup Offer Got an offer from a startup of 175k base + peanuts for equity options. They won't tell me what percentage it is but from available public data I suspect it's about 0.025%. In reality, it will be less since they are in the process of closing their series A (~300M valuation) soon, which will dilute m
- How much equity should I have? First time full time role at a startup. Employee #2 with private equity experience. How much equity should I have? Salary is reasonable.
- F*cking startups Top things that startup colleagues have said or done: 1. "Move fast break things" 2. "I wake up at 4am and read a book" 3. Writing down a list of things to do that day... "It's called habit building bro, Jeff Bezos does it" 4. "Go on r/startups dude, everything you need to know is on there." 5.
- Thinking to join Startup Thinking to join a startup (stealth mode) TC is almost the same but of course apple is consist of base + bonus + rsu but startup is all cash with same TC + equity. Offer is : 210k base + 1.2% equity Apple: 130k base + 70k rsu + 10k bonus Good or not?