Microsoft to OfferUp ?
Offerup has bit of negative reviews on blind and Glassdoor. However I know few folks from microsoft who are working there. I want to work for a startup.
Why a startup? Why OfferUp specifically?
Don’t do it FB marketplace will crush them
If you just want to work at startup and doesn't have better options, then why not..but it's not going to be an unicorn..
Just to keep in mind that their stock options expires 90 days after you leave the company. If you work there for 4 years and decide to leave, you will most like not able to buy your options.
You can exercise your vested options and keep the stock. What's yours is yours. You will have to pay the strike price though and possible some taxes.
Exactly. You will need to pay quite a lot actually and you may not have the funding to do that. Even if you do, the stock may worth nothing eventually
Why would you want to work at a Craiglist ripoff? Oh wait!! You work at Microsoft. Go for it!!
Microsoft is that bad?..huh 😑
First of all, so many bitter engineers from so many different companies on this platform. When you ask a question, expecting reasonable dialogue, don’t think you’re going to get it here. It’s a bunch of overly opinionated curmudgeons who are bitter about their lives and want to shit on everything. Second of all, the Glassdoor reviews are pretty negative because of lots of movement and politics in the engineering team which have left a few people sour. You’re going to hear the vocal minority the most and while their gripes are legitimate, I’m seeing vast improvement in the approach to fixing those problems. So let me give you the pros and cons and you can decide. Cons: We have lots of passionate people here and everyone has ideas in which direction we want to go and it’s like herding cats to get everyone on the same page. Decisions do take a while to be made and communication breakdowns happen. Like I mentioned before, you’re going to see politics at play here at times, and you’re going to see some disagreement. All of the cons I’ve listed above are things that I have seen at every tech company both startup and Fortune 500. There isn’t anything wrong with OfferUp that is specific to it. It’s a fast growing company, there are growing pains and rough patches. Some of the older employees talk about the old days where it was the best place to work — again being a veteran of startups, there are times where it’s great and times where it’s painful. Pros: We are, hands down, the leader in our space. All these clowns talking about Facebook marketplace and shitting on what we do, don’t know our space, don’t understand the potential and don’t understand business. So if you look at these people talking all sorts of shit, look at where they work; don’t expect someone from Cisco to know the market place space. The talent here is great. You’re surrounded by some of the smartest people and can learn so much. If you’re taking on a more junior role you will leave a much smarter person. If you’re a “bar raiser” you will make an immediate impact and be very much a part of the bigger picture. In all of my experiences, some of the most driven and passionate people work here. The Glassdoor reviews you’re seeing - they stink of former employees who lost that passion or got easily discouraged. I don’t want to completely discredit them, because some of their gripes were real, but the ability to make those changes were in their hands. Come to an on-site and see for yourself. What I saw during mine was exactly what I got. They didn’t fluff it up or make it seem nicer than it was. Good luck!
What happens to your stock options when you leave buddy. When will the company see the light of IPO so that you can get your hard earned money? Will there ever be that day? How do you like the new VP of engineering and his buddy, director of backend. You know what they built in Microsoft before they join OfferUp? Skype for business, oh my god!
Stock options are always a risk. I have both lost money and made money from startup options on the secondary market and taxes. And an IPO is not the only exit. And isn’t always the best end goal. What does them having built Skype for Business have to do with anything? I’ve never used it, so if it has to do with its stability as a product, I wouldn’t be able to speak about it.
Offerup is awesome. Solid app and ecosystem
Ok do it Are you just posting your thoughts on Blind?