Is it a good time to join Uber/Airbnb/Slack/Stripe/Lyft
Dec 9, 2018
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I am a senior at LinkedIn data infra. US citizen and have no visa issues. Enjoying my time at LinkedIn doing good backend distributed systems work. Have done a lot of leetcoding and very strong in coding and systems interviews. Does it make sense to give it a shot to the pre ipo companies which are going to go ipo (mostly very soon): Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Slack and Stripe? TC: 350k and Yoe 8 years. I feel even in the worst case (if the stocks crash in those companies) my TC will be greater than 350k
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You need a promo to Staff at LinkedIn to have any hope of getting 350k or even 300k anywhere else (because then you could make L5). As is you are stuck.
OP is decidedly L4 with a fancy title looking for a level bump upon switching. These companies will literally look at levels.fyi and say no.
That is, unless somehow data infra eng at LI are underleveled relative to the rest of the company.
If you are currently Staff and can get L5 then you will get similar or modestly higher (325-400k) offers at Uber/Airbnb/Lyft. So youβll just be taking a bet on the IPO outcome.