A great place for working less than 40 hours and sometimes having cool projects.
Terrible direction from middle management and no career growth beyond IC roles.
Hey All, Im trying to weigh an offer from Spotify against a few other places. i am trying to understand what a normal raise is like since it sounds like bonuses and refreshers are VERY rare (correct me if im wrong). what is a normal raise threshold (%)? does anyone know? i think im coming in as a...Read more
Can anyone here speak to the compensation at Spotify? Are they good with matching competing offers? And looking down the road, how are they with raises? I am currently ~2 years out of school and going through the interview process. The work there looks very interesting and I know the culture is a b...Read more
Hey guys. It’s hard out there right now and everyone deserves a raise. Go give yourself a 5 percent raise. Claim exempt on W2 Create HYSA deposit tax money into HYSA. Pay when you file, keep the interest. Give yourself 2-5 percent raise. Please like this post if you found it useful. 🙏 #Googl...Read more
Just got an offer from Spotify 265k. My comp at Amazon is 250k. I feel like Amazon comp could outpace Spotify given stock prospects and relatively generous raises as of late. Only thing is WLB which I imagine is better at Spotify. Thoughts?
Listing profitable companies that don’t need to raise more capital - Alphabet - Apple - Adobe - Amazon - Airbnb - Autodesk - Dropbox - Intuit - Microsoft - Meta - Netflix - Nvidia - Salesforce - Spotify - Yelp Any to add to the list?
Evaluating a couple of offers between the 2 companies. YoE= 5 years Scale AI Role: Product Ops Salary: $155-170k Equity: option value based on current strike ~$600K over 4 years (exc cost to exercise) Location: SF Spotify Role: Sr Manager, Subscriptions Salary: same Equity : $120K over 4 years L...Read more
I think I have a good idea to solve the mircropayments problem. It'll allow you to easily pay per video on netflix, per article on a news site, per song on Spotify etc. But I don't have the right coding skills to complete it. I was thinking of using kickstarter to raise some money and hire a develo...Read more
Want to create such a list to see if we can find a pattern why those dropped while the others popped. Dropped: snap, PDD Popped: Roku, Spotify, docsign Hanging there: Dropbox I think generally if a company is still raising money one year before its IPO, the IPO market cap will be more than its l...Read more
Current PM at Chewy (YOE at 3 years) and am looking to move companies. Also founded a small marketplace supporting local artists impacted by covid. It raises about $12k a month for local artists. If you work at any of the below, I’d really appreciate if you could help with a referral - #lyft #ube...Read more
Just curious how much a data analyst actually makes at non faang companies since the numbers online are extremely low. I’m discussing a pay raise with my current employer today but I have an offer in hand for another company. Just trying to gauge what I should ask for from my current employer. Cur...Read more
Dutch payments processor Adyen NV's shares fell by a third on Thursday, wiping more than 13 billion euros off its market value, after first-half earnings missed estimates, as sales growth slowed and hiring costs hit margins. Analysts said the company's performance raised concerns about stretched va...Read more
Hi folks, My friend had to shut down his startup recently (had raised $600K) and is now looking for referrals for PM jobs. Posting on his behalf as he doesn't have an official email id. If you can help, please comment so that I can DM you. PM Experience: 5 years Total Experience: 7 years #pm #pr...Read more
Hey ive been working as a Data Analyst for 2 years out of college. I went to UC Berkeley and majored in Data Science and Economics. I really want the DS job title, and pay raise and dont see a path to moving positions at my current company (smaller series D startup) I would love if I could get a ref...Read more
TC : 70k USD (56 LPA INR) YOE : 4 It's been 1 Year as SDE-II at Amazon and I am really tired of working here. I am looking out for job change in tech/fintech companies with better WLB (India/Remote). There is cut-throat competition in my team and people are working 10+ hours and late nights to imp...Read more
This is new. Wasn’t like this till a year back. Some of the most competent people I know were laid off by Flipkart in the name of PiP. Poor folks got blamed for a layoff, and no severance. During review, I was told, I worked hard for appraisal, by my very incompetent and delusional manager. When I...Read more
I am poor. Not literally, but might as well be. I'm a non-engineer, 29, in the HCOL. I've lived at home most of my life, just moved out but to my family's property and pay off my the mortgage. I have no student loans or major debts, my car is paid off in full. My only major expenses are mortgage / r...Read more
For context, I am an IC3 software engineer at Apple with 6 YOE. I joined in 2020. Current pay: 160k salary, 37.5k per year stock. Spotify offer: Engineer II, 190k Salary, 37.5k stock, no bonus and no stock refresh for 4 years unless you get a promo. The main reason I’m looking to leave apple is f...Read more
Recently had my lead scoring model got into production with 2.5k users. Its pilot generated hundreds of thousands of dollars last fall. My covid based product recomendataion insights also hit production 2 weeks ago. This also went 2.5k users. How can I leverage my success into a raise or new job? ...Read more
Hi, I’m a recent grad international student (masters in computer science). I have been searching for data roles for a while. So far no 🍀 luck. Currently, working at a startup, Generative AI (LLMs) recently raised fund from AWS) while searching a full time role. I have some work experience back �...Read more
Hi all, I am an ex-startup founder looking for a PM position in an exciting startup in a growth, scale or late stage. I joined an accelerator with my last startup, raised $1.5M from early Spotify investors, hired 50 people, and successfully launched the product to 2M active users then immigrated to...Read more