I just got an offer for a platform engineer role at Palantir.
Base - 200K
RSU - 500k/4 year
Sign on - 50K
YOE - 10
The original posting was for New York but I was able to get them to agree to Seattle.
I asked them for 380K in Seattle and In New York I had asked for 450K and this is what they got back with. I’m still trying to push for 380K recurring. Is this good or should I negotiate for more ?
I’m curious to get some opinions from people who have experience with corporate HR/management. I work for a large financial services organization in Canada.
My AVP recently called me out of the blue and told me that HR had reviewed my salary against the industry/market standards for my role. She said they were increasing it by around 3% and congratulated me, saying it was a reward for my hard work.
I never asked for a raise or requested a compensation review.
One thing that makes me curious is that a little while ago, I applied internally for an AI-related role and mentioned it to my manager. She said thanks for letting her know, and I didn’t think much of it.
When my AVP called me about the salary increase while my manager was sitting right beside me. My manager saw the call and even messaged me asking, “all good?” After the call, I told my manager about the salary adjustment, and she seemed genuinely unaware that it was happening.
So I’m wondering: Is it normal for HR/leadership to proactively review someone’s salary and increase it without the employee asking? Could the internal AI application have triggered some kind of compensation/retention discussion? And is it possible for an AVP/HR to make this kind of adjustment without the direct manager knowing beforehand?
I’m not complaining at all 😄 — I’m very happy about it. I’m just curious whether this is a normal corporate thing or if there’s more context behind it that I’m missing.
Hi Guys,
I am working at Meta and got a Google L5 offer for a HW Engineer role at Bangalore office, 10 year experience. Can you guys please suggest if this matches Google's current pay packages.
Thanks
Base = 65L
Performance Bonus = 15%
Joining bonus= 5L
Stocks = 200K
I joined Salesforce in India in July 2026, at a ₹15 LPA base.
Today, I received an offer from Cisco for ₹24 LPA base. I wasn’t actively looking to leave Salesforce, and honestly, I would prefer to stay at Salesforce because I like the company/role and see better long-term value there.
The problem is the compensation gap — ₹15L vs ₹24L base is significant.
Would it be reasonable to have a conversation with my Salesforce manager about this, despite having joined only ~3 weeks ago?
I’m not looking to make demands or threaten to leave. I’d essentially want to say that I’ve received this offer, Salesforce is my preference, but the compensation difference is substantial, and I wanted to understand whether there’s anything Salesforce can do.
Questions:
Is it too early to have this conversation?
Would this make me look like a flight risk after only 3 weeks?
Is it realistic for Salesforce to do anything about compensation this early?
If Salesforce says they can’t match, would you still stay if Salesforce was genuinely your preferred company?
Would especially appreciate perspectives from managers/HR/recruiters who have dealt with similar situations.
Extremely stuck on an offer for the fact I’m fully remote.
Senior Software Engineer
5 YOE
The Trade Desk
Base: ~200k
RSUs: 500k over 4 years
Great medical, dental, vision benefits
Much better for career growth
Great team
VHCOL area
3 days in office hybrid
Booz Allen Hamilton (current position)
Base: 200k (sounds like they’d be willing to offer a raise)
Okayish benefits
Fully remote (huge!)
Bouncing from contract to contract
Struggling team looking to rebuild
Great domain I currently work in
Get to maintain active TS/SCI
MCOL - Not great schools, crime (ABQ)
Does anyone if Apple accepts day1 cpt as work authorization. I am in middle of interview process and not sure if I should proceed or not. Is it team specific or is there any company wide policy?
Offer from Series B AI startup, unicorn ($1B +)
Senior Physical Infrastructure Engineer
Base: $205k
Equity (Options): 30,000 shares. Recruiter will not share total outstanding shares. Estimated at .02%.
No bonus structure right now, annual or sign-on.
Is this fair? It’s hard to figure out without knowing total outstanding shares. Thinking of requesting $215k base and 40,000 shares.
I have no experience with startups so any advice is appreciated. I do not come from FAANG but I know my skills and experience are in demand.
About Me & Current Situation
Offer Breakdown
I have 3YOE, 0.5% equity offer in rsus, 175k base no bonus in nyc. Is this competitive for a software engineer?
Need thoughts on this offer I got after 7 years at Meta.
Base: 270K
Performance bonus: up to 10%
Equity: 0.06% (around 240K over 5 years (1 year cliff))
No sign on bonus
YOE: 7
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Is this a fair offer?
I've been spending a lot of time thinking about this and wanted to get opinions
Graduated college last year, started a local job paying 160k first year in relatively lower cost of living area. I'd be living with friends and close to family - this is something I'm keeping in mind in this decision as it is probably the last year these friends will all be in the same area together. Additionally, in this role I'll have time to work on active side projects + recruit for better places
In SF, the startup is also paying 160k plus some equity. I'm confident the learning + career growth opportunities here will be valuable, and despite being a startup there will still be mentorship opportunity. My read is that the startup is doing well but isn't positioned to be an insane rocketship. The WLB will be reasonable but I will definitely have less time for side projects and recruiting prep. Also, I know the 160k won't take me as far in SF but since this is early career should I even be considering money that much?
Curious to hear thoughts about whether this opportunity is worth it. I'm torn because I value the social connections I have at home but am highly invested in my career growth at the same time
Hey folks,
I received a call from a recruiter for a SDE job oppurtunity at onepay. I haven't heard much about the company, how good is it. Is it growing? And how good it will be for the enginners.
Recruiter reached out for an SDE role at OnePay. I’m completely out of the loop on this company.
Can anyone shed some light on their engineering culture and growth trajectory? Is it a good place for engineers right now? Any major red flags I should be aware of?
Thanks in advance!
Here’s some target bonus percentages across the industry. It’s interesting to see the different patterns here. From gradual incline as you go up in seniority, to sharp incline, to a static percentage across all levels.
What’s the bonus policy and target percentage at your company? How frequently do employees achieve the full target? Has the company held back on it before?
On the chart, the solid line means the majority gets the same bonus percentages, while dashed lines means it can vary more within.
Anyone from Apple moved to Nvidia in recent times. I just received an offer for ic4. I want to know how the work and culture at Nvidia is.
The recruiters are more emphasizing on stock growth and I feel like they already had their time. What do you guys think.
2027 and 2028 comp at apple are north of 400k (because of initial refreshers) but nvidia recruiter is adamant. They are considering nvidia growth will be more than apple ans the recruiter literally said Less politics lol😂
Any insights are appreciated!!
Current Tc: 360 (including bonus)
Offered: 370 + sign on 24k
Yoe: 9 years
Hey folks… need your help thinking about two offers.
First one is Notion. Really enjoyed meeting the team, the domain is something I’m familiar with and the culture / people are really nice. Ivan himself interviewed me at the end and left a very good impression on me (and him). He gave me his phone number and he texted me which I was very flattered by.
Roughly. $700k TC: $275 base / $410 equity / $27.5 bonus / $50k signing
The second one is a lot trickier… it’s an AI infra startup whose thesis is focused on building a data harness / system of record for decisions. The founders are incredibly legit and kind. One was a well known AI researcher at FAANG / OpenAI and wrote some foundational papers on RAG. The other was a product director at FAANG on core AI inference products. Both were former founders of a successful AI company. Company has $1M+ ARR right now and is in talks with large F100 companies to deploy agents with very sizable contract values. The team is fantastic, clearly super smart and very hungry. Their investors are legit too (GV, Gradient, Accel, Sequoia).
Offer is $300k base + 0.8% of the fully diluted share count. They already raised around $20m as a seed and are in stealth.
I’m really struggling because Notion seems like a really solid offer and a great brand / company. But the asymmetric upside + legit founders + strong offer + genuinely cutting edge work at the startup are hard to ignore.
Curious to get some feedback. 10 YOE.
current job: faang+ new grad role 1 yoe. frontend dev working on really cool stuff
tc: ~125k (100k base)
pros of staying:
- relaxed life, I get to travel a lot while working
- passionate about my current project
- great benefits
- I love this city, ik ppl here
cons of staying:
- low pay
- even tho I like frontend dev, im getting FOMO of other swe work
zon offer: new city new grad role in aws, backend swe role (distributed, clustering, etc). internal team so it’s not gonna be too bad in terms of stress and on-call.
tc: ~170k (120k base)
pros of zon:
- working at one of the highest scale services in the world (trillions of transactions per day)
- much higher pay
- stepping outside of mobile dev is great for growth and opens up doors for future career path
cons of zon:
- high stress and I lose the chill lifestyle I have now
- 5 days rto, 15 days pto, basically not gonna be able to travel and work anymore or see my family much
- new city is nice but it's a far move
- resetting the promotion clock since it’s a new grad role
- no food or office snacks so i have to meal prep daily (not the end of the world)
Hi Guys,
I received offer from Arista networks.
Currently at Qualcomm.
Qualcomm trajectory:
Joined 2 years back. Currently Senior Engineer(Promoted December 2025)
Currently working on Freertos, (Bluetooth wearables products), Android HAL and Qualcomms Qurtos on ADSP.
My current comp at Qualcomm:
base: 24
bonus: 3 Lakhs
stocks : 12 lakhs per year approx.
Arista offer:
Team: EOS Routing team (2days wfo)
Location: Bangalore
base: 30
bonus : 3 lakhs
stocks: 16.8 Lakhs per year
Joining: 1 Lakh
I have to leave 3 Lakhs bonus and potential hike at Qualcomm in December and have to join Arista with 1 Lakh joining bonus if I leave.
Any insights or suggestions? Not only comp, but stability, career upsides in both roles and future growth.
Pulled this data recently while looking into some of our fintech industry coverage. The interesting thing about Stripe is that they now issue 1-year grants. So they don't give you a large total grant, its just what you get for that year. And then each year you get a new refreshed grant, I'm assuming contingent on performance.
What this means is that the compensation values listed here don't include a larger grant behind it that this was annualized to, these are the actual values, and the equity portion is the actual amount of the grant you'd be receiving.
The company is private, so the equity isn't immediately liquid, but they've had tender offers and liquidity events. The AI era seems to be doing them well as they work on agentic payments and commerce.
It’s actually pretty insane that you could join what was then a Series C company (already somewhat mature in startup land) in 2023 and still see a 51x multiplier on your stock grant within ~3 years. This accounts for dilution, basically adjusting for the new shares that have been issued. The overall valuation of the company did a whopping 235x in that time.
Also, this is assuming the $965B valuation. Investors discussing the IPO (which could be as soon as this Fall) are very casually throwing around $2T and $3T potential valuations citing that an 800% growth rate YoY should yield at minimum a 30x multiple on revenue. I guess we'll see, but you can imagine how much higher this $51M mark for this employee outcome could actually be if we get into the trillions.
Regardless, some insanely eye popping numbers!
Hi everyone,
I received an offer from NetApp for an MTS1 role in Bengaluru and would appreciate feedback on the compensation and whether the switch makes sense.
Experience: 1.3 years
Current company: Startup ( Series A fintech)
Base: ₹21.77 LPA
Target annual bonus: 8% of base, approximately ₹1.74 lakh
Broadband allowance: ₹26,400 per year
Total cash CTC: approximately ₹25.94 LPA ( base+Employer PF, gratuity and other components)
RSUs: $8,000 total, vesting over 3 years
Annualised RSU: 2.5 lakh
Total CTC: approximately ₹28.5 LPA
The recruiter mentioned that this is the maximum compensation available for the MTS1 level, so there does not appear to be any further room for negotiation.
My main concern is that the fixed salary increase is only around 14.5%, although the NetApp RSUs are more liquid and reliable than startup ESOPs.
Questions:
Any insights from current or former NetApp employees would be helpful.