How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120k to $250k
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Re: How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120k to $250k
#2What a misleading headline.
Tldr: he had an initial offer from Yelp for 120k and then another offer from Airbnb for 220k which he negotiated up to 250k
So just a 20k bump.
Don't click to read this. That's all this is.
Re: How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120k to $250k
#3Re: How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120k to $250k
#4What a misleading headline. Tldr: he had an initial offer from Yelp for 120k and then another offer from Airbnb for 220k which he negotiated up to 250k So just a 20k bump. Don't click to read this. That's all this is.
Why is someone willing to pay him that much in the first place?
Re: How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120k to $250k
#5What a misleading headline. Tldr: he had an initial offer from Yelp for 120k and then another offer from Airbnb for 220k which he negotiated up to 250k So just a 20k bump. Don't click to read this. That's all this is.
Why is someone willing to pay him that much in the first place?
Always an interesting question. And of course if you make 250K on your first job, it really isn't going to go up all that much from there.
Re: How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120k to $250k
#6$211k at Google is worth way more than $250k at Airbnb. Who knows what $95k of Airbnb RSUs is actually worth. Also, $25k was a signing bonus.
Re: How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120k to $250k
#7Why does Airbnb need so many engineers? Is what they're doing really that complicated? How many engineers does Craigslist have?
Re: How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120k to $250k
#8$211k at Google is worth way more than $250k at Airbnb. Who knows what $95k of Airbnb RSUs is actually worth. Also, $25k was a signing bonus.
Exactly my thought. Even the initial 162k at google seems like a better deal.
Re: How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120k to $250k
#9Please replace the blogspam with the the original post. The BI article is factually incorrect.
Here is the original. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii...
Re: How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120k to $250k
#10Please replace the blogspam with the the original post. The BI article is factually incorrect. Here is the original. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii...
which alrady has a HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552780