Numbers follow up to previous post "Pinterest vs. Plaid vs. Square vs. Github ?"
Follow up for previous post "Pinterest vs. Plaid vs. Square vs. Github ?" where some folks wanted some more numbers shared. Always happy to make our industry more transparent! YOE: 7 years Location: NYC, but all offers/positions were for remote roles. Verbal offers with definite numbers but varying levels of negotiation: - Pinterest (L5): 220K base, $960K in RSUs/4 years, 70K 1st year signing bonus, 18K 2nd year signing bonus - LinkedIn (Staff): 250K base, $812K in RSUs/4 years, 38K 1st year signing bonus - Block/Square (L5): 215K base, $600K in RSUs/4 years, 30K 1st year signing bonus - Plaid (E5): 220K base, ~$1 million in RSUs/4 years - Github (E4): 225K base, ~250K $$ in RSUs/4 years, 40K 1st year signing bonus (nice annual bonus structure in form of both cash and RSUs though, avg of 0-15% base cash bonus and $0-29K in RSUs bonus with possibility of 15-30% base cash bonus and $29-58K in RSUs for top performers/excellent performance) - Oscar Health (Senior): 215K base, ~$440K in RSUs/4 years (weird/interesting vest schedule/program), 15K 1st year signing bonus - Zipline (Senior): 200K base, ~$200K in options/4 years - Hashicorp (Senior): 225K base, $280K in RSUs/4 years - Gitlab (Senior): 240K base, $200K in RSUs/4 years Rough verbal offers with numbers but cancelled process before getting written offer or negotiating: - Patreon (Senior): ~200K - 220K on base, ~$200K in RSUs per year - Reddit (IC4): 190K - 230K base, ~$270K RSUs/3 years Rough verbal offers but cancelled process before getting definite numbers/a written: - Instabase (Senior) - Procore (Staff) - Stripe (L3) - Amazon (AWS SDE III) Also might be worth mentioning I got completely ghosted after tech screens/manager screens for Twitter and Slack. Got rejected from Cruise (after tech screens) and Mongo (after onsite). I work in the infra/SRE space. Luckily, most of the interviewing for these types of roles/domains is pretty work-relevant stuff (no/very little leetcode, very heavy on Linux, OS, Networking, Troubleshooting, Arch, behavioral, etc.). I luckily only spent about 4 days/~20 hrs prepping for the non-coding stuff and about ~5 hrs doing 3 leetcode medium questions and 1 leetcode hard question before realizing I wouldn't want to work for any company that would give difficult leetcode questions for infra/SRE folks and giving up on leetcode type prep. Chose Pinterest after everything. Thanks for all the input on my other post. Happy to talk in DMs! Hope this info's helpful for the community.
Absolutely amazing, congrats! 🥳
No leetcode, lucky you
Good choice
How's plaid doing recently?
Plaid’s doing pretty good
Did you try negotiating more RSUs with Plaid? What was the response?
I did not, the numbers are without negotiating/were the initial offer.
Bro is copying usernames now lmao
Wow. How do your recommend someone get started in the SRE space? I’ve started off doing backend for the first half of my career, switched to front end for the latter half. I’ve been wanting to move towards being an SRE for a while. I feel like this was my sign to at least try.
Dodged a bullet
Why you say so?
Welcome to pins
What's your current role like? Do you code? Wrangle YAML? How did you decide to go into SRE and not SWE? I work in that space and I can't tell if it's because I work at a bank or whatever, but it even when building tools in Python or removing toil or fucking with AWS/terraform/ECS/whatever, it still feels like culturally it's just secondary to SWE.
Can I DM? I have some similar interviews (level and position) coming up
Dude - that’s great, work for one year then I think you can for level 6 or 7 and make a signifiant upgrade. PINS is great for now, there will be some downtrend in next year or so in the stock, but then these same companies will pump