Some smart people who have been here 4 or 5 years and are great to learn from. The engineering culture set by senior engineers is good but it's not supported by engineering management which is unfortunate. The new CEO lets people do their jobs and does not interrupt or embarrass them.
Engineering Managers are highly variable, some try and build careers for people and promote them while others have no idea how to manage people and treat them as disposable. Compensation is significantly below market and the retention bonuses for engineers are a joke. The VP of People has no idea how to manage people in a tech company despite the former CEO stressing how she was an A player at Netflix. During the recent company in person meeting, the VP of Engineering set policies different to the rest of the company but told his managers to not say it came from him which came out in the middle of a bar when attending a gathering of people who were not in engineering. Everyone is required to be oncall, including when pregnant. The last CEO would argue spelling with employees during their presentations to the company.
I am signing up for Wealthfront to start investing my savings. One of the questions it has asked me is whether they should not buy/sell any particular stock which I am restricted from trading. Obviously since I work in Uber I can't buy or sell the stock during blackout periods. But they say they c...Read more
Approaching the final round, do they offer yearly refreshers? TC: 140k YOE: 5 #tech
I was going to sell my RSU when it vested on 4/15, but then dragged on till now as the stock price went down (172 to 169). Starting from tmr I am getting the Wealthfront 6% API promotion for 3 months, wonder if I should sell those recently vested stock at slight loss and put the cash in Wealthfront...Read more
7 years in the industry. Target comp this year 320k. Target comp next year - 420k Total savings - 710k Amazon stocks - 400k Wealthfront - 28k 401k - 53k Robinhood - 72k Cash -62k Money in India for parents retirement - 100k Something which I should change/do better. Also suggestions to diversify ...Read more
I've always been pretty frugal, here are my numbers: Salary: I save $4k per month ($8k net - $2k to rent, $2k for spending) Stock: I sell all of it as it vests and reinvest w/wealthfront ($6k per month) Bonuses: Save half (about $10k) rest is for vacation s. Go!
How was the performance of wealthfront and betterment during the recent stock correction as compared to say S&P 500?
I sold some stocks and have about 1M cash. Have about half of it in Wealthfront and the remaining in brokerage account. Please suggest some ideas. Dividend stock buy a 1M investment property TSLA/NVDA QQQ/SPY Invest in India What else?
I used to think getting 5.3% guaranteed on Wealthfront with boost was amazing — but just realized you have to pay marginal taxes on these gains each year by filing a 1099-INT. This isn’t something stock holders deal with due to conservative long-term capital gains capped at ~10-20%. Given that, th...Read more
190K AAPL 10K another stock // have gone up 50% this year 25K WealthFront // has been flat for almost 1 year 115K 401k 15.5 K cash
Peeps, for the first time ever, managed to save $100k. I am nervous as to deciding what to do with it. Home: Bay area, $100k won't do much Bullion? Physical precious metals? Stock market: too risky for me, I don't like this option VTI/VTSAX: put 100% in to this? High interest accounts: is this an...Read more
I feel I didn’t pay attention to investment or savings and work in a mid-pay company. Now I’ve got roughly 600k. Is this normal? I feel I got a good amount of money but given I didn’t do things special, I wonder if this is ordinary... YOE:3.5 My portfolio: 260 cash + saving account 85 Schwab stoc...Read more
I have sold few of my stock grants and have 100K. I am lazy in investing and want to play mid term(1-2 years) I have tried Wealthfront, they are good for lazy investors like me, but eyeing something different. Peeps who index their investment, how often you rebalance? Wealthfront does it for me fo...Read more
Currently it's sitting in Wealthfront earning a whopping 0.1% interest. Don't want a CD as I might need it any time when a good house is available for sale. Stock market seems risky since I might need the money any time. Another high yield savings account? Suggestions? location - US tc-400k
I’m trying to save up for a down payment on a house, and periodically sell Apple stock whenever it hits long term capital gains, and move the money over to a high yield savings account in WealthFront yielding 4.8%. Currently sitting on ~100k in cash. Waiting to hit 300k so I can dump it on a house....Read more
New guide to equity and IPO from Wealthfront, helps demystify some complex topics around valuing equity, exercising, tax implications, selling stock, etc. Have you exercised and what's been your experience? https://blog.wealthfront.com/equity-ipo-guide/
I don't want to do the offer eval as there is no comparison to my offers, just wanted to know if my decision makes sense. Current TC ~280K YOE - 6.5 years 1. Affirm Base : 215K Sign on Bonus : 30K Equity : 250K for 4 years Yearly bonus : 0 2. Upstart (Software Engineer 2) Base : 180K Sign on Bonu...Read more
After a rainy day savings, do you put every penny you save end of month to buy individual stocks or ETFs and mutual funds ? Currently using Robinhood and increasing my portfolio in there. Should I continue stock picking on Robinhood or start using Wealthfront/Betterment/etc ?
Iran , China, Russia seem to be an axis power in nascence. This is more than saber rattling. How should one prepare for war ? Liquidate stock to high yield savings account ? (can pseudo banks like Wealthfront impose capital controls ) ? Load up on oil and defense stocks ? How can visa holders who...Read more
It’s great because we both get some money excluded from their fees. Wealthfront is a great way to get into investing. It helps some money grow the stock market while you learn better on how to navigate investing. Edit: for the salty people, this is exactly what I mentioned above it’s for people who...Read more
Currently have ~200K cash on a 1.3% saving account. Have another ~160K on stock. Mostly my vested FB stocks. I didn’t sell my RSUs yet. I am going to use these funds for down payments to buy a house. I still need to save more for several months. What’s a good strategy to keep these down payments f...Read more