Very good benefits, good work life balance, great place to start a career a learn.
For a company in the financial services industry, pay is very low compared to others in this sector. There’s no financial incentives to stay here once you attain a senior job level as the company’s bonus programs do not take number of years at the company into account.
I have a HSA with Health Equity and recently I started to invest in available Vanguard funds through that account. Unfortunately all my below funds shows negative returns: VIIIX VEMPX VTPSX VBMPX How are your funds performing? Do you see this is a time to increase investment in these funds as mark...Read more
I just received a New Grad Offer From Vanguard. It is an Application Engineer II role (Vanguard uses Application Engineer instead of Software Engineer). Location: Malvern, PA or Charlotte, NC (I get to choose) Base: 94.5k SignOn: 10k Bonus 1: 8% of base salary ($7,600 - based on performance) Bonus...Read more
Currently I am investing in Vanguard 500 index fund and Vanguard Growth index fund as part of the 401k plan. Is it advisable to continue or look at other Vanguard plans? Would appreciate if anyone invested in these funds can comment on their overall performance #investments
I had vanguard form a previous employer and now have Schwab for stock trading From what I am seeing Vanguard UI seems to be pretty bad (I did not realize that until I had Schwab , even Fidelity seems to be better compared to vanguard ) My major complaint is in vanguard I cannot see a comprehensive...Read more
Hi. I am trying to pick 401k plan Vanguard is offering. I know the plan Vanguard will offer will depend on my company. I know I can read about performance and fee associated with each plan. I see some tech focused plans which are doing well but they are dependent on one sector. I looking for a plan ...Read more
Bogleheads/Investment sub in Reddit claim that : - all US is absolutely a recency bias (due to recent strong investment performance from US) and not truly diversified investment strategy. - It is said US and international take turns and outperform each other, and there have been periods that US pe...Read more
I’m looking to switch jobs asap. I currently work at Chase and can’t stand my toxic manager. He gave me a terrible performance review despite me meeting and exceeding expectations. Because of the bad, rating I most likely won’t be able to move internally. Additionally, I received no bonus or raise. ...Read more
Folks, New to investing and planning to spend an year or two with just indexes and mutual funds until I learn the art of reading balance sheets and earnings to venture into stocks. I started with a brokerage account both on vanguard and Schwab to start with. Liked the simplicity of vanguard and i...Read more
If it matters, work locations for both are the north Dallas offices. The roles I typically fill are IT Program Manager or Product Owner. Thoughts on culture, pace of work, work life balance, etc. What’s performance management like and is it cut throat? What is pay and raise like? Trying to compare ...Read more
Hi Blind, hope you are well. I am just curious what the average annual return % is for Betterment / Weathfront? I am thinking about trying one but not sure if it's better just to pick several Vanguard ETF's with good past performance on my own. TC: $330k #personalfinance #investments
Hello My kid is 6 month old and we are proactively thinking of setting up a fund for him. Thinking of Shawab Premium Robo Advisor with 10% cash allocation (pro: CPA advising, con: fees) Another option is just allocating each month into VOO and VTI. I know that Vanguard give >; 10% returns per las
I'm having a hard time tracking the performance of my investments (screenshot of my accounts attached). Some brokers like Fidelity/Vanguard/Wealthfront/Betterment have very nice performance data. I know at all times how much is my cost basis and if I'm losing or winning. But I'm having a very hard t...Read more
I live in Redmond, WA and I was laid off in October but have been getting pretty steady interviews since. Unfortunately, I only made it past the Tech Screen for 2 companies - a very small startup and Vanguard. I have an offer from Vanguard for $120k base salary performance based bonus up to 8% $1...Read more
Hi, I have tried to manage my own investments in the past, using the three fund plan, but I did not do a good job at it. To that effect, I have put my money in a target date retirement fund at VanGuard with the idea that I don't constantly think of rebalancing. Vanguard investment advisor reached ...Read more
Seen a recent Sr Manager position in tech that piqued my interest. Couple of questions: How's the performance management / PIP culture at Vanguard within tech? I can put in the work but not looking for something like Cap1 which recently took up Amazon PIP / URA culture. I want something long term ...Read more
#investments #personalfinance Got a question for you guys... With my prev company RSU allocation, I started having an account with E-Trade (many years ago) To execute commission free trades, I opened an account with Robinhood (etrade trades were expensive at that time) To play with options I ope...Read more
I am considering rolling over an old 401k from Vanguard to Fidelity. The options are a self managed rollover IRA for no account fee, or the Fidelity Go IRA that is managed, with a fee of .35%/yr. Past performance is not a future predictor, blah, blah, blah. I have a 401k with my current employer,...Read more
Hello all, I have a strong full stack engineering and performance testing background and am currently a SWE intern at Atlassian. This year, I have completed 250+ Leetcode problems. In Fall 2019, I received 6 SWE internship offers from Cisco, Vanguard, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Liberty Mutual,...Read more
Hello everyone, I'm looking for referrals in any Fintech companies for the following roles: Financial Analyst, Product Manager, Business Analyst, Data analytics and Insights I am a CS grad, and I work for Financial services firm and I have experience in Capital Markets, Risk and Performance Evalua...Read more
In this thread I see crazy discussions about picking hot stocks, when to jump in or out, etc. I have been trying to do that for a few months and find it a little exhausting, both emotionally and time wise. I compared the performance of my hand picked stocks/etfs to that of the Schwab robo account I...Read more