Hopper offer negotiation
Just finished interviewing with Hopper for a Senior Software Engineer role. Recruiter has signaled that I have passed all the interviews and he is preparing an offer. Not sure if they'll be able to match my current TC. May be folks from Hopper can help decide what is the best Hopper can do. Just want to make sure they don't low ball me. I also heard from another recruiter that Hopper just made some cuts in non tech departments. Is that correct? Current TC: $400k ($200k base + $200k RSUs at reduced valuation) Exp: 10+ years #hopper #tech
Did they match?
my friend got 395k offer, but not sure if you can get more. he said no because he got a higher level from other company with 450+k
@hoppebunny are they recruiting new grads? I’m super interested
I think yes but very limited openings
I negotiated almost an additional 100k from them so you might have a chance.
What level & TC?
Yeah got some feedback on what to expect with the offer. To summarize, they are short by at least 50k. I will have to negotiate. What are your expectations of Hoppers growth (RSU upside)? I was informed there are opportunities to liquidate the RSUs, has anyone tried to to liquidate their RSUs? If so, how easy is it to liquidate RSUs?
How was the interview process? What kinds of questions?
Pretty standard process in my opinion: 1- Recruiters chat 2- Online Assessment: Chat with a manager + coding interview. 3- Loop interviews (Onsite) consisting of 3 interviews: - System Design: Discussion about microservices vs monolith. Some discussion on challenges with microservices & how handle them. Then they posed a problem related to distributed systems and asked how would I go about solving the problem. Had to write pseudocode at the end. - Operations & maintenance interview: General chat about operations and maintenance. Testing, deploying, monitoring, alerting & on call discussions. There was a coding test here as well. - Coding interview: General chat + a live coding test. --------- Each conversation had behavioral questions embedded. Coding tests were mostly LC easy (may be medium); coding questions fell into the following categories: merge-intervals, sliding-window & DFS
They fire on the spot with no warning be sure you really like the role, it is a amazon wannabe
Hopper was unable to match my current comp, let alone beat it. Ended up declining their offer. Thanks to the community here that helped in making the decision.
Could you share the offer details?
Base: $200k Equity: RSUs worth $450k across 4 years
If Hopper was a public company actually valued at 5bn this would probably be a very good offer for a Senior Engineer. However, I am afraid the 5bn that they are valued may be ballooned by last year's VC frenzy. See what happened to KLARNA's valuation of even Instacart 😅
Agreed, this is an inflated valuation of Hopper. But the good thing with Hopper is that they allow employees to participate in liquidation events. For example employees participated in the last round of funding where they were valued at 5B
You won't get 400k TC from them. Don't waste your time like I did
Yeah, I feel they might not be able to match my current TC. Let's see what they come up with.