What do folks who work at Snowflake (core teams only) feel about: 1. The work culture? 2. Reviews every quarter? 3. Work life balance? 4. Downward trend of the stock and poor guidance? 5. Are the salaries reported on levels.fyi inflated? I am a DB internals expert with 12+ yoe. I have been frequen...Read more
I was doing some stock analysis and found Coupa doing good and its glassdoor review is 4.7. But could not find any salary info in levels.fyi Anyone know whats this prospect looks like in long term and why there are not ,uch talk about this in financial newspapers. Also how much RSU Coupa offers for ...Read more
Got initial offer from unicorn in Santa-Monica Benefits are very nice, but financial side of offer is: Base - 175k Bonus 10% Stock options - worth $25k (told verbally) UPDATE below Position Principal Data Engineer (AWS). Total TC = 192K Currently: YOE: 15+. TC: 150k+20% = 180k Have a few day fo...Read more
Due to some stock appreciation, we hit 1M household networth today. Super grateful for the journey thus far, but plenty of ways to go till financial freedom. Mostly a combination of lucky real estate and investment account appreciation, as well as high income and low expenses. I think my high TC is...Read more
Doing some financial rebalancing and you could help me out Currently have a car loan at $25k at 6.5% interest Currently have a house mortgage at 3.125% interest, pmi per year is like $1k. If I want to pay more principal to remove pmi itd be around $50k Have $80k vested stock from espp/rsu, does it...Read more
Hi All! Hoping I could get some unbiased financial check as I believe I’m behind. Took a job couple months ago for slightly less pay to get into FAANG gambling for an early promotion which is happening Q3 (so paid off) but feel like since my salary hasn’t progressed I’m way behind! In Euro €€€ (ba...Read more
I am based in Barcelona Spain. I was working remotely for Hopper as a lead Android Engineer with a TC: 200k(150k base, 50k RSUs) but I was extremely bored and unhappy after 7 months of work then I got laid off for financial troubles. Before I worked at Glovo as tech lead then a member on the platfor...Read more
My family and I live in Kirkland,wa and purchased our house just under 3 years ago for a little shy of 750k. While i did get a good rate on our loan 3.5%) our monthly payments are high and I was considering refinancing and taking out some stock to lower the overall amount of the loan (we originally ...Read more
Update: we are breaking up after a long discussion. She’s upset with my repeated accusation of her not contributing to our finance, rejected proposal to see therapist citing I’m too poor and she’s too tired for that. I have removed her as my dependent on my employer benefits. It’s a clean breakup. T...Read more
I feel unmotivated and bored at work. I have been with current company for 5+ years and recently promoted to Principal PM. Previously, I managed a team as being a L6 manager. I enjoyed the role and was there for more than 2 years. Due to a policy change and a reorg, I became an IC. I did not like it...Read more
Here is my personal finance end game. Please shoot holes in it. Currently expect that by 65 I will be sitting on approximately $50M. It is 30 years away. I have two young kids currently. I plan to setup a trust which will spin off income to me and all future descendants subject to some specific rul...Read more
This is my first post on Blind ever, so apologies if I say something stupid. Don't come for me. I am 1.5 years into my product management career and unsure of what my next move should be. For context: I joined my team at Microsoft in September 2022 as a PM right out of college. Love it so far. My ...Read more
Update to my post: Turns out this is the hiring manager, not a recruiter. They responded to my email -they wrote me they work hard to make their org a better employer. I believe they have good intentions, but wasn't it Papa Jeff who said that good intentions (by themselves) do not count? Backgrou...Read more