- decent work life balance - pay is decent compared to other similar startups
- lots of changes within the management - lots of good people left the company
What do you all recommend, sell Amazon stocks or sell current home (have equity ~$250K) to buy upgrade home? Amazon is down ~20% so, in 2 minds to sell the stocks now or keep it. Where home prices are going up and I can rent it easily without any financial overhead. Loc: Seattle TC: $200K
I received an offer from Upgrade for the Senior Software Engineer position. 220 base (no bonus) + 40K options. As per the recruiter, the current stock price is 2$. Any Upgrade folks here who can comment on when Upgrade is looking to IPO? Also is there any room for negotiation?
Flying to Hawai tomorrow from Bay Area. The upgrade to bussiness class is 800$ should I do it? Ps: my gf is traveling with me but obviously she doesn’t want to upgrade (we make almost same amount of money) Ps 2: we will be seating separate anyways because we got economy and we couldn’t change seat...Read more
Morgan Stanley upgraded price target to 70 and the stock is way below its peak in Dec. #personalfinance #investments
I am evaluating an offer from Upgrade Inc. Is this a good time to join a fintech company? Any current or past employees have any insights? YOE : 5 Base : 200K+ Stock Options : Yes #tech #fintech #upgrade
Non-eng/non-sales roles in Azure/Cloud in Seattle: MSFT TC: $178k ($140k base, 15% bonus, 17k stock) Goog Offer: $222k ($150k base, 15% bonus, $200k starting stock, $20k starting bonus, $??k refreshers?) No brainier? TC/Perks upgrade for sure WLB downgrade (coasting at MSFT) Cloud market share do...Read more
Recently received an offer from Upgrade Inc. for Senior Software Engineer and want to know what Blind thinks of Upgrade Inc.? YOE : 5 Base : 200K+ Stock Options : Yes
Met a friend today that told me that he went from L6 to L7 at Amazon, but his TC actually dropped. He said that the bump in his base pay and the stock upgrades weren’t enough to compensate for the fall in the number of vesting stocks between the year before and the year he was promoted. How is thi...Read more
In places like bay area where the rent does not cover the mortgage, tax, and insurance, would not it be a cheaper option to sell and invest the in stock when you buy a upgrade?
Recently started a new role, comes with a good TC boost (30% increase in base + signing bonus and stock). I’m wary of lifestyle creep, for now I’m still living as if I’m on my old base salary and just putting the excess into HYSA and VTI. I’m thinking of potentially upgrading apartments in the summe...Read more
Want to make small amount of money without too much risk to use for things like a business class upgrade on a long flight, or other small desires. Do you guys invest like that with similar goals. What have you tried. Just random stock picking or index funds?
I have $10k that I want to turn into $100k (Daddy needs a Porsche upgrade) before the end of this year. What’s the 1 stock that’ll get me there? As mentioned in a comment, I have a high risk tolerance for this investment. While I’d rather not lose all of it, if I did, it’s not the end of the world....Read more
Can HSBC manipulate the market using buy ratings and save the stock prices of Uber and Lyft? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/16/hsbc-upgrades-uber-lyft-to-buy-over-30percent-upside-to-ridesharing-stocks.html
IC5, TC ~250k post crash, 3 YOE PINTEREST, IC4 175 base, 475k / 4 = 118k yr stock, 80k sign on year 1, 20k year 2 = 293k TC Not laid off, good ratings in a central team so I feel I’ll survive at Meta. Kinda f’d up a couple coding rounds but did strongly on ML portions. Thinking I won’t take it g...Read more
Up 25% in the last year. Where are the crash callers ? Lol! At this pace people may double the housing prices every 3-4 years and keep upgrading ! This is worse than the chasing in stock market, but for now the FOMO is real !!!
Just go upgraded to a buy rating by BTIG. Wondering how much upside there is in the stock? Any risk takers think it'll go back to 17+ here? FYI i cancelled my onsite when the price was at $7 🤣🤣
Looking for some free advise. We have been thinking to upgrade to a bigger house for a while. We have 2 elementary school age kids. We are wondering if these numbers make sense. Is this going to jeopardize our financial stability? The new homes that we are looking at are in $3.2M to 3.5M range. Th...Read more
On June 18th 2020, Jeffries upgraded TSLA from 650 to 1200: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/18/jefferies-raised-its-price-target-on-tesla-to-1200-from-650.html On Aug 26, 2020 Jeffries upgraded TSLA from 1200 to 2500: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-stock-gains-after-jefferies-boosts-target-to...Read more
I have always believed in you and refused to sell my stock regsedless of the stock blunged ( 737 max + covid19) and losoing $50k! Love you Boeing!#boeing Keep up the goos work!! I know it takes six hours to upgrade mcas system in each plane + change in wiring! It is going to be long way to go!