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I am a senior at LinkedIn data infra. US citizen and have no visa issues. Enjoying my time at LinkedIn doing good backend distributed systems work. Have done a lot of leetcoding and very strong in coding and systems interviews. Does it make sense to give it a shot to the pre ipo companies which are going to go ipo (mostly very soon): Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Slack and Stripe? TC: 350k and Yoe 8 years. I feel even in the worst case (if the stocks crash in those companies) my TC will be greater than 350k
Also how much rsus does Uber give for senior 5a and senior 5b?
Not exactly sure what the offers are like nowadays but I will say that getting hired on at the 5b level is quite rare
What level are you right now? Your YOE is irrelevant. If you are Senior Staff at Linkedin and can get L6 then yes you will get higher elsewhere. If you are currently Staff and can get L5 then you will get similar or modestly higher (325-400k) offers at Uber/Airbnb/Lyft. So youβll just be taking a bet on the IPO outcome.
He is a senior engineer.
Senior eng at LinkedIn is L4 at uber
It seems like the right time to join Uber and Lyft was 3 years ago. Especially Lyft. Those $1million grants seniors got in 2016 are now going to be worth $5million. If you join now, you'll be at the mercy of the stock market for the next 4 years which isn't good.
Given your TC and that you are enjoying your work, why switch for a slightly higher but riskier comp? Just buy the stocks when they go public.
This
Thanks. However I cannot buy 800k worth stocks. Itβs not just for money but the whole ipo experience and fast growth. Plus for me to really go lower than 350k Uberβs valuation after ipo must go to 30B which I feel is too low for Uber
Anyone interested in ranking opportunities between these companies? Iβm curious what blind thinks of them. Thanks in advance
350k sounds high for LinkedIn Senior. OP is probably counting msft stock appreciation.
Yes you are right @Evan Your tc is based on stock appreciation.
Youβve done so much leetcoding, you sound like a Chinese. Are you sure you donβt have h1 b visa issues?
I am very sure I am a US citizen. Thanks for checking. I am not wasting time here. Want some serious inputs
Iβm sorry to tell you that Senior at LinkedIn is equivalent to L4 at any of the companies listed. Play around with levels.fyi. You need a promo to Staff at LinkedIn to have any hope of getting 350k or even 300k anywhere else (because then you could make L5). As is you are stuck.
This. LinkedIn titles are inflated. Most companies have one more middle level between SWE and senior.
Itβs doable. I had about the same YOE as OP, but mostly at startups. I was senior at a startup (with no real way to compare levels to other companies) and I got L5a at Uber. You just have to prep and do well on interviews.
If you go and search in LinkedIn there are tons of LinkedIn senior engineers who moved to Uber and Airbnb as senior engineers. Btw they are all from data infra. Staff is data infra is really big. Some staff in data infra have also gone to these top companies as staff. Recently a principal engineer from data infra went to google: gcp as principle. So itβs not a comparison like that. Also Apps and infra are different. People are senior from 2 years till 15 years experience
I think all of those companies will give me 800k plus rsus for 4 years if I have competing offers given my experience. Correct me if I am wrong
Yes, act soon and secure an offer with >800k RSUs at current valuation. You can go back to Linkedin if IPO does not go to the π.
Thanks. My only concern is that I might be burning bridges with my manger and team as I am very well respected and overall enjoying everything here. However IPOs like this happens once in a while and I donβt want to miss it as well