1. Comp 2. Less toxic as compared to others 3. Slow moving resulting in less pressure (in certain parts)
1. Hires less and only senior people. So no growth path for management and IC. 2. Extreme top down. Nothing happens without CEO's decision making 3. Bi-yearly launches which are better suited for hardware world than software. 4. Lot of super senior people in rest and vest mode.
I recently joined Airbnb (non-eng) and my unvested shares value is now >; $1M. I’ve never grown up with wealth and have an opportunity to be represented by UBS through a connection. I’m curious if I should look into UBS and professional financial advising. I recently bought my first home so I don
Seems like tons of people achieved financial freedom in the past week with the Doordash and Airbnb IPO. Wondering if anyone having any ideas on which unicorn will go IPO next? So people can join now to bet on something big and hopefully achieve financial freedom before 30 lol #airbnb #doordash
Besides Airbnb, which Pre-ipo companies are in deep financial ruins due to covid
Have been working as a Controller for a local service based company. I have experience in Financial reporting, modeling and process improvement projects on SAP and Intuit products. Comfortable using Power BI and Payroll products. Have public accounting experience just not with Big 4. YOE - 8 Cur...Read more
wife is working at airbnb and the internal financial data is still pretty bad. want to get thoughts on the possibility of 2nd round of layoff? should she prapare for interviewing?
What would be a better move from career and financial aspect? Offers are comparable after negotiation (~470k per year). For some reason, Airbnb(no real data points) feels like a less hostile/demanding work place compared to Facebook(multiple friends). Not sure about career scope beyond L5 in Airbnb,...Read more
What company does Airbnb and Facebook use for background checks and what are they checking for? Will low credit/credit issue make them rescind an offer? (Non financial & non governmental position)
For someone with two years experience, would moving to one of the successful startups (Pinterest, Airbnb, Snapchat, Dropbox, Slack) have financial upside vs staying at Amazon or going to FB/Google?
(6)Plaid is a financial technology company that specializes in connecting users' bank accounts to third-party applications. vs. (11)Capital One is a tech-forward financial services company that utilizing software to back its banking products. ----- Poll is now closed. See the next, Airbnb vs Zoo...Read more
I love the concept of WeWork and it is something that people NEED. Just like we NEED Uber and Airbnb under certain circumstances. For companies that people NEED but do not make financial sense, what happens to them?
Can some one please refer me for either business analyst or financial analyst in Apple , Uber , Airbnb , Houzz or any mid size company in bay area. I appreciate your help. TC 100k
Hi, we bought a house in May with 30year fixed mortgage. Due to financial situation, I would like to Airbnb it. Is there any issue from Mortgage perspective? Is there any issue due to insurance Please provide pros and cons of doing this. Tc 400k
95% of the tech companies which went public in the last 5 years have no financial discipline and just burning investor cash. Those who invested at IPO will not get any positive returns ever? Examples Robinhood Coinbase Lyft Uber Airbnb Snap Peloton Sofi Affirm Compass DoorDash Dropbox Coupan...Read more
Considering Google Capital is an major investor in Airbnb does that change anything about recruiting involving Airbnb? For example Google would obviously have access to Airbnb financials, such as compensation data. They would also know the engineering bar and scope pretty well due. Historically Go...Read more
10+ YOE encompassing corporate finance, treasury, financial analysis, business insights. Would appreciate referrals. #jobopening #recruiting #hiring To name a few companies where I see relevant roles posted on LI. #zendesk , #sofi , #twitter , #amazon , #samsara ,#datarobot ,#zoom ,#stripe ,#chim...Read more
Where is the talent today? Around 2018, working at Lyft or Uber was perceived to be the best. Honorable mention to scooter companies for a brief period of time. In 2019, it was AirBnB. In 2015, it was Quora. Meta and Google and a few financial firms (HRT, JS, a few others) are perennially seen as...Read more
My partner works in Airbnb and today's (and coming days') news are heartbreaking. They have a really special community and it's difficult to see it fractured this way. To any affected... I won't hide I've had a lot of ups and down since joining Salesforce but we're a good company with a diversifie...Read more
https://thepointsguy.com/news/airbnb-rate-surge/ "Airbnb this week reported a nearly $2 billion profit for last year, with $319 million in profits coming from just the last three months of the year. What’s driving such a hefty haul? Much higher nightly rates than ever before. The average daily rat...Read more
Bhaiyas and Bhaiyees of Blind. You and I know Indian public and private banks are pretty shit. Let us copy RobinHood’s checkings/savings model shamelessly in India. You see Ola copied Uber. Oyo copied Airbnb. Flipkart of course. Financial sector is untouched. Pls do the needfull.
Purely from a financial perspective, I've seen a lot of posts here saying FAANG over startups because of higher TC vs paper money. For people who joined startups at series D (airbnb etc), did you end up making more than if you would've just joined FAANG for the same amount of time? Or is series D ...Read more