Please help evaluate this initial offer: Base: $152K RSU: $296K over 4years ($74/yr) Signing bonus: $10K MCOL Area New TC: $226K (236 first year) Current TC: <100K🥜
Would love to get some preparation tips for interviews.
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It's a significant jump, take it OP. Congrats! I doubt you'll have much leverage to negotiate unless you have competing offers.
Good bump. Did they ask lc and common sd?
You have a take-home options and that’s what I went with.
I meant for the onsite round
I have DD on-site coming up in 2weeks. I’ve seen DD offer up to $300K for L4 but I was told Block doesn’t match offers anyway so competing offers wouldn’t work here. Also I think I’d rather go to Block than DD idk I’m going based on Blind Reviews. I’m okay with the Less TC + Better Culture/WLB combo, just wanna make sure I start with good numbers before I sign.
Any interview preparation tips? How did you prepare?
~4weeks of non-stop studying lol. Seriously. I did a take home. On-site was going to be adding to the take home so the first two weeks, I focused practicing adding different functionalities to my take home & also getting very familiar with everyparts of my project. Week 3 I focused on speed & SD. I started timing myself to accomplish tasks in 50minutes. This was very challenging but I think it helped me the most. SD, creating my own mini design docs for features I’ve built before & watching YouTube to refine the docs. Week 4 was review & behavioral practice using Pramp peer review sessions. Goodluck!
Sweet signing bonus. Depending on which city the mid-band salary for your area is probably 161k. You don't have much leverage it sounds like, maybe tell the recruiter you're interested but your family needs more convincing and ask for 160 😛
160 base? You think I can ask for more RSUs too maybe?
Idk about that, they tell you the salary range for your level/location but the TC range is more secret. I'm an L4 in a mid CoL area so I know for sure the mid is 161k Also with the way the stock has been going who knows what those RSUs will be worth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ even in a quarter it can swing a ton
Yes ask for 400k rsu and 160k base for sure! Congratulations and all the best!
Are you at Square? I was told that max RSU For L4 is 340 and that’s in HCOL🥲
Ohh! Did you check levels? You could verify it there.
That’s good that beats my square offer which I was told was near top of band. I got 155/250
Did you negotiate? And have you started?
Starting 10/3 and yup I negotiated
I don't know but that's a crazy tc jump and a good company as well. Congrats! How were the interviews?
Also op you should probably edit the post and tag square / block for more views from their employees
Thanks Verizon. Yes I know. I was stupidly loyal to a company that was happily underpaying me. The interviews were great. The interviewers were really engaged so that made our conversations much easier. HMs were pleasant too. I had 2 technical interviews, 1 SD & 1 Behavioral. Block provides a great prep guide that I’d advice you to pay attention to. All the hints you need is in there tbh. Block really cares about their core values so make sure you’re displaying that throughout the on-site.