- Stocks you think will perform well this earnings season Title says it all. Do you guys think FAANGM stocks going to beat expectations? Would be interesting to see new IPO stocks. Is shorting Uber, Amazon and Netflix a good idea? TC: 290k
- Uber IPO - May 10 How do you think Uber will do?
- vote Compare Instacart SF vs Zillow Seattle offers Please vote. Zillow (Seattle) - TC ~ $305k Base $190k RSUs $250k over 4 years Sign on $90k Relocation $10k Factors: Good wlb, low risk, gloomy weather, less opportunities, good savings, good commute Instacart (SF) - TC ~ $335k Base $195k RSUs $525k over 4 years Sign on $10k Relocation $10k Factors
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and industry lounge. - Why bother buying Lyft stock? There’s a conversation across Blind and the internet about the Lyft IPO and whether it’s worthwhile to invest in their stock. The obvious risk is that this is a company that is losing a ton of money, is not the category leader and may never be in profitable. It is not inherently clear that Lyft’s bu
- How to uplevel for Google (L4 -> L5) I am L4 at Uber with 5 yoe. I am expecting a few L5 offers from pre-ipo companies but interviewing for L4 at G right now. In this case, if I ace the interview, can I get L5?
- Uber:. Why do we believe the stock is undervalued? What is the case to be made that it should be higher? Hey Uber family, it seems post after post on blind is complaining about our stock price or blaming elt, or various forms of people complaining and whining. While many of these gripes are valid and people have the right to be upset when expectation and reality do not meet I'm curious to hear people
- Stripe vs Airbnb Offer I have offers from both companies, which would you choose? Uber L4 = 220 145k cash 60k stock @ 32$ 15k bonus Stripe L2 = 280 155k cash 110k stock 15k bonus Airbnb L4 = 280 160k cash 105k stock 15k bonus Working at Uber and watching our stock tank has me less excited about Airbnb because I think
- vote Atlassian vs. Datadog vs. Uber I've been blessed to receive software engineering internship offers from all these places. I interned at Uber last summer. I'm a junior looking for this to be my full-time offer that I'd accept. Disclaimer: I know Uber well, but I don't know enough about Atlassian or Datadog. Any insight would be a
- Working at Uber is awesome YOE 1 TC 220 I'd like to take a minute to vouch for my employer who is most of the time bashed on for one reason or another. Note this post is based on experience of a new grad. 1. Comp We are a pay for performance company. Though our base may be average (115k for new grads), our bonus is 45% of
- link Uber filed for IPO! 2019 will be interesting... https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-lays-groundwork-for-ipo-1544231655
- Stock Options: How much time a company takes to go public? im emphasizing on some bitter news that people ignore just by taking few lucky companies as a reference. my point is: more than 95% starup companies cant make it to IPO stage. The remaining 5% companies are disruptive technology companies which receives a great applaud from the tech communities. Ven
- vote IPO millionaires So it seems that less than half the employees become millionaires in terms of vested and unvested stock when a company IPOs (source - another poll happening in the Uber lounge). I'm starting a poll for everyone to see what their experience has been. The requests are simple:- - 🍿 if you haven't bee
- wework RSU value change in light of IPO valuation change? I am very close to accepting an offer at WeWork as a data scientist in their NYC office but in light of their IPO valuation dropping, I am unsure what this means for the value of the RSUs as part my offer. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/09/05/wework-is-dramatically-slashing-its-ipo-valuation-because
- Uber’s future = GoPro, FitBit , hortonworks, cloudera Now that hype is all gone, when they face reality. All they do is to lay off people. some might say that facebook had to face the same stock performance like what uber is facing right now after the IPO. But facebook atleast didnt lay off people, made clever acquistions like instagram, whatsapp and f
- vote Uber vs Airbnb offer comparison I’m deciding between Uber and Airbnb for my next role. Both offers are for first line managers (EM2 at Uber and M1 at Airbnb). I have 10 years of experience with 3 as a manager. Here are the latest offer numbers: Uber: 215k base, 75k sign-on (over 2 years), 1.2 mil in RSUs (based on preferred stock
- vote Uber/Lyft are crushing RSU values and IPO prospects. For those of you/us working for unlisted comapnies. How badly have your RSUs been impacted since pre uber/lyft ipo?
- Uber employees: what are you going to do when the IPO lockout ends? Uber lockout is ending in November, what will you do with your money? edit: i know u are all going to sell, i actually meant what r u going to do with the money? buy a new car? house?
- vote Has Uber downgraded to tier 2 after shitty IPO? tc: 🖇
- The real irony in Uber IPO Upon IPO, Uber employees will be able to afford Tesla. Many will buy it. The irony is Tesla is Uber’s biggest existential threat. From Autonomy Day presentations we learned that their self-driving is way ahead of everybody else including Uber. Personally I largely agree with what they said, especial
- Blind community, you are blind. RE: UBER layoffs First off, anyone who was laid off at Uber, I hope you find a good job soon. Uber doesn’t deserve your talents. -From your big bro upstairs at 1455. To everyone else hyping the sh*t out of Uber pre-Ipo. Shaking my head to you. All you saw on blind were posts of how Uber was “supreme”. The hottest
- vote Now I have my offers, I can't decide what to do... I have offers from Facebook, Google, Uber, Dropbox, and Amazon. The offers are very comparable, but the Uber one comes with extra equity since they are pre-IPO. I'm more into product rather than infrastructure, and so are the teams I'm being considered for. Opinions?
- vote What do you think will happen to UBER after ipo? Do the needful below or kindly revert back ASAP in comments. Edit: (My opinion) So, isn't lyft eating up ride shares? Why would I use Uber eats? There's Postmates, Doordash, eat24, Amazon restaurants and many more. Some of these are subscription based and low cost. They all deliver to the door, r
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and industry lounge. - 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
- 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
- vote WeWork VS Compass. Which one would you pick? if you have an offer from both wework and compass and you HAVE TO pick one. 1) Which one would you pick ? 2) Why would you pick that? 3) Based on Evaluation, which one would suck like Uber at IPO? Please enlighten me. Thanks a lot for your opinions wirh facts :)
- How many millionaires made from Uber IPO Can someone at least give some insights on this? E.g.1 - those who join before 201x regardless of their levels E.g.2 - first x employees regardless their levels E.g.3 - Level x and beyond even they joined after 2014 (Note: millionaires = lumpsum of 2019; 1M divided by 4 years doesn't count)
- link Uber IPOing lower than Lyft currently trading 😂😂😂 $45 a share at an $82.4b valuation. Feels real bad. Desperate to avoid that negative publicity huh? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/09/uber-ipo-pricing.html
- Best mid-stage startups to join in 2019/2020? Considering Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Slack, Zoom, Stripe, etc. aren’t startups anymore and most of them have either IPOed already or at least reached their peak valuation before IPO, any suggestions on next big thing? Companiea which still technically qualify as mid-staged companies and there’s still roo
- Grab Potential Uber is close to IPO and looking around I see Grab with a lot of potential I.e with their foray into payments space. Looks like they might have potential to go 3-4x in next 3-4 yrs. Going to think about interviewing there. Am I missing something about them? TC: 350k (E5)
- Uber refreshers I got a positive feedback after interview and taking about TC structure, recruiter mentioned they don’t give any number for refreshers after IPO. I have FB offer and refreshers mentioned is around 120k for E5. TC ~425k YOE : 9 I would be offered 5a at Uber but not sure how to compare it with FB o
- link Uber down 7 percent https://markets.businessinsider.com/amp/news/uber-technologies-publicly-listed-company-initial-public-offering-2019-5-1028189839
- Early Career - Google or Uber With 1 YoE, which company would be better for my career? Uber team is a lot more fun, but its also a high impact team (a lot of teams depending on the team's products -> might be bad WLB or a full 40/45 hr week). Google team seems much more relaxed, the product is a bit boring compared to Uber
- 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 $23 bil
- What do you genuinely think about Uber stock after IPO? I did not add a poll since I wanna know the reason rather than just random clicks. The current valuation is around 40$ do you think it’ll go under water or skyrocket or neutral? Any possibility it’ll follow Snap and Dropbox’s paths?
- The Disruption of Uber There have been lots of threads around pros/cons of Uber. After this post I am signing out for good. To win the future of ride sharing requires: 1) consumer brand and trust 2) L5 autonomy 3) operations expertise with physical assets Google has 1 and (soon) 2. They will have to develop/acquire/pa
- vote So much hate against Uber So much hate on Uber in these recent years. Back in 2015, Uber was like one of theses “ALLSTAR” startup on par with Google and FB. It is true, we also see so many ex-Google/FB-er working at Uber even in 2018. But I noticed so much hate against Uber in the last two years or so. For example, People ar
- 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
- What next after Google Thinking of changing job if some other company can offer better compensation and career growth. Some options look like: AirBnB, Netflix, Uber, Square. L4 YOE: 2 years TC: 230K Edit (adding some more context): Work is good at Google and so is WLB. I have learnt a lot from the senior members in the
- Why Google Hangouts lose to Zoom? Zoom seems to have a really good IPO soon and it’s growing fast and profitable. Uber uses Zoom and it’s great. Why Google Hangouts cannot beat it or let it grow so much? Google Hangouts has advantage of being natively compatible with G suite and it has open source webRTC.
- vote Which is more evil, Uber or Lyft? Lyft appears to be a nicer guy, but from the ipo, it seems the same evil guy, or worse. 1) lyft ipoed at the highest possible price, making early investors exit with huge profits at the expense of everyone else. Uber at least lowed the ipo price and appears less greedy. 2) lyft’s driver award is un
- 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
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and industry lounge. - 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.
- Isn’t Uber the next Snap? Both companies bleed $. Won’t Uber tank after IPO?
- vote Airbnb vs. Uber SWE Offers I have offers from Airbnb and Uber. Both in SF 2yoe Uber software engineer II 152k base 13.5k-27k annual cash bonus 52k-105k annual stock refresh 50k sign on bonus 9600 stock units / 4 years at 409a price (I think this equates ~390k over 4 years. Correct me if I am wrong) Airbnb L4 SWE: 180k base
- Push for Uber offer before ipo? I have my final round for a role at Uber in early April. Let's assume I manage to secure an offer, would I be better off trying to push to secure prior to, or post ipo? I know RSUs are granted as common stock nowadays with a fixed valuation of $33/share. I guess the point here is do we believe the
- What's working at Uber like these days? I'm specifically interested in product management at Uber and curious about what pay, perks, and wlb looks like post IPO.
- Uber RSU Valuation as of May 2019 Considering Uber vs Google. Uber is going to file for IPO in April. I would receive between 5-6k Uber RSUs over 4 years if I accept my offer for L4. The problem that I see with this is now I am going to have to wait 12 months to sell, which is probably going to be many months after the lockup peri
- Apple vs Uber offer - what will you chose? Having offers from Apple as well Uber. Uber offer is more solid than Apple in terms of cash and equity. Apple folks, given an option to earn more and learn more, do you think you will goto Uber or you won’t take the risk? Uber folks, how confident are you that RSU will atleast hold this value till
- Uber IPO What are your thoughts on Uber going public after lyft failure?
- How do I play my Stock Options at a Unicorn? I recently got approved for a significant amount of stock at a tech unicorn. It should make me a multimillionaire however there's a few problems. The vesting period is 6 years. And the strike price is 10-30$. I can't afford all my options. Do people take out a loan or the span of 5 years? I'm als