TC: 450K YOE: 10 Edit: just got my comp conversation for 2021 so TC: 580K, YOE: 11. Power of compound RSU refresher. Not meant to flex, but I recently went through a job search. Decided not to do leetcode because fuck it and I have family. Here are the offers: - Design startup (e.g Figma, Invision, Sketch): Staff level, 400K (200K + 800K/4) - Brex: Senior 2, 500K (pick your split) - Collaboration workflow startup (e.g Notion, Asana, Airtable): staff level, 550K (250K + 1.2M/4) - Coinbase: Staff level, 420K (230K + 750K/4) - A hypergrowth startup: Senior 2 level, 400K (half base half stock). Decided to go with the hypergrowth startup because "I like the stock". I do believe they'll 10x. Other places I talked to: - Twitter: refused to match Staff level, adios - Uber: Same as Twitter - Citadel: I asked for 700K. They asked me to do a 4 hour psychology test for offer above 500K, adios. - FB: matched with E6, did phone screen (behavioral), onsite they expect me to solve 2 LC medium in 45 minutes for each of the 2 coding sessions. Adios. - Airbnb: Bay Area only, adios. - DoorDash: process moves too slowly. - A hypergrowth YC startup: took the interview because I know someone there. Did leetcode, adios. - Stripe: matched at staff level but no offer Basically the key to optimize this process if you don't want to leet is: - Need enough YOE & prestige (FAANG-tier companies) to be matched at the staff level where system design outweighs everything. - Filter out companies paying under 400 - 500K. Turn on "looking for work" without the badge on LinkedIn. Recruiters will flood you, then state your comp range. Some will ghost and that's expected. - Ask if they ask leetcode upfront, or "algorithm". Turn down immediately, don't waste your time. Failing an interview also hurts your morale badly. I learned it the hard way when I thought my backup was that hypergrowth YC startup then got caught off-guard. AMA. DM for specific company names if you're interested. My framework for system design: 1st clarify the domain to design data model, from there design the CRUD API, from there figure out data flow, R/W frequency, persistency requirements which naturally leads to operations/scaling. In short: 1. Data Model 2. API 3. Data flow 4. Scaling How I judge my own perf: if you get to 4 you're good. If you're stuck at 1 you don't understand the domain and that's bad. 2/3 is 50/50. Edit: a lot of people ask me how to get better at system design. For me personally I joined a big tech (non-FAANG tier) and consumed A LOT of internal design docs for systems made by other teams. They have real use cases, real tradeoffs & real traffic and better than generic prep materials. This is where big company experience REALLY helps. Edit 2: I personally try to avoid "been there done that" projects at work unless I need them to build personal equity for proposing a bigger multi quarter/year projects. It's politics basically but that's how I grew in scope. There's a difference between X yoe & 1 yoe repeat X times. Once I've outgrown the team, I'd switch team and eventually switch company. I've always switched companies because of growth issue, not TC issue.
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How can my idiot brother who does real estate afford this
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Are tech workers as rich as they think we are?
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Have u worked at other faangs before dropbox ?
Big tech yes, no faang
Baller!
> They asked me to do a 4 hour psychology test for offer above 500K, adios. wtaf. Can you tell us more about this?
They use a company called GHSmart. They dig into everything from childhood. Borderline illegal
I slapped my brother and stole his ice cream as a kid. I guess theyāll fail me or is this the psych they need lol
Balls out. Killin it bro
The process is broken. Aint nobody got time to leet
"Ain't nobody got time to leet" couldn't agree more OP.
š Asana has leetcode phone screen, no?
Youāre a legend, congrats! Fuck the leetcode grind.
Genius. Congrats OP.
Thanks
OP is joining GameStop cause he ālikes the stockā
How did you filter salaries what platform did you use?
I ask recruiters up front my comp range is 500-600. Edit: Updated the post on what I did.
Hey OP, with Brex did you get 500k for Bay Area location?