I’ll be honest. I didn’t have Coinbase offer, but i passed on giving their onsite interview because i already had another offer, and didn’t felt the motivation. Also, wanted the security of a big company over small because I am on H1B. But, damn i skipped going to their onsite interview back in Nov 2017 because i had another job offer. Everyday i get this thought. What would have happened if i had gone and got the job and joined. Growing up poor, i know how important money is.
Not the end of the world, bud. You win some you lose some. Everyday is a new day and you take it as it comes. The core experiences of your life wouldn’t have necessarily changed with the job.
Not a big deal. But choosing JP Morgan over coinbase is a little ouch. When you said big company, I thought it was at least FAANG...
i was stupid enough to undermine the role of stocks as part of TC. base + bonus offered by JP was higher. also, i don’t have many friends who work at startups, so that knowledge was missing. Blind has opened my eyes to tech industry
I can assure you that the vast majority of Coinbase employees aren’t millionaires even though they joined the company pre-IPO It’s just like working at any other company. Unless you were offered some insane stock package to join them early on (the vast majority were not), you weren’t going to be walking away buying lambos or over leveraging that million dollar home to impress friends and strangers lol.
a search on Blind tells you Coinbase employees are worth $20M A guy posted a screenshot of his $4M worth stocks and he joined in Jan 2021.
Very few employees are worth millions, that’s a fraction of the total percent of their workers. What you’re getting caught up in is confirmation bias & convenience sampling
None of us have a crystal ball. If we knew future we would have bought bitcoin at 10$. Opportunities are always closer than we realize. The whole thing could have been the other way around. I understand value of money is different for different people. In long run it won’t matter. Invest in yourself and your future the money will follow.
I declined AWS in 2012. No regrets
Dodged a bullet.
Lol ended up at AWS in 2020
Evaluate your decision making and if you think you need to make any changes to how you make decisions in such instances - do that. Else move on.
You’re same as that guy who keeps bringing up the topic that he couldn’t get with that now supermodel, back when you both were in Highschool. Hindsight is 20/20, move on and don’t look back.
not comparable. dating and job are not similar. although i agree on the hindsight part, i could have bought bitcoin too in 2017, but i didn’t.
Ok. Yes, you’re a jackass and an absolute moron. Like you don’t even deserve to be called a techie. There, now do you feel better ?
Think of all the early stage startups that will have big IPOs in the future. Why arent you trying to join them right now? Answer: you can't predict the future. These posts are no different than "why didn't I buy x stock 10 years ago"
yeah, but i cleared the phone rounds, and did not purse the onsite round. thats like going to the water and not drinking it.
Even if you had an offer in hand from them and declined it there is no difference. You made a choice given the facts on hand. If coinbase IPO had tanked and they went insolvent you would be thinking you were glad you declined the offer. It's like almost buying Bitcoin when it was worth pennies. It was worth pennies for a reason and might still be worth pennies in the future.
I didn't buy Bitcoin when it was pennies! I also keep any original comics I bought ages ago in their original pristine condition. Man get to the now and stop lamenting your dreamt up alternate realities.
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You are living in present, not in the past, move on and don’t think about what happened in the past I declined Snap, Uber offers when they were very early stage… in case if this makes you feel any better