Thanks to the googlers for their advice so far.
TC 190, almost 6 yoe.
Recruiter said an L4 offer would not happen, but they would extend an L3 offer.
Said they'd likely match current salary. But if I take this, I'll be gathering other offers first.
Problem is, I am getting amazing experience at AWS building scalable and popular services. Our design decisions MATTER in a very tangible way.
Recruiter said I'd probably not get sexy projects to start, but would likely be exceeds expectations first year and then get promoted before I would have gotten my next promotion at AWS (to L6 / SDE III). I am likely to hit that promo at AWS in about 2 years.
I feel like I'll probably stay because the education and experience is so good.
But would like to hear thoughts from Googlers who have accepted this path. Downsides? Upsides? What is comp change like if you are at higher level L3 and get promoted? Any newly minted L4s out there?
Was hoping to get in at around 240 at L4.
I mean, the nice thing would be that my L3 Google salary would probably be my L5 Amazon salary. And same with 4 and 6. Want to hit 300 TC within 5 years. That's the long term goal.
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Same with me, even with a high TC.
Won't get enough refreshers just because initial Grant was high
My manager is supportive of promo but there is an unsaid minimum tenure requirement for promo even if you are performing over and beyond.
What would a refresher be for you now? Can you expand on that a bit? Or maybe show what your comp history looks like? Trying to understand refreshers. Why would someone who hasn't finished their initial 4 year even get a refresher?
damn, guess I'd better make sure I join before Jan 1st of the year I'm in!
Also, never trust recruiter or hiring manager’s words on future promotion; once you join the company it may depend on factors outside your control such as manager changing team/company, reorg, grunt work etc.
I guess I've prepped for interviews so much over the last 4 years that (a few team changes), that it takes less and less prep each time? Or I just got lucky with the questions, haha. I don't have a CS degree, but I know way more about trees and graphs now than I did 5 years ago, literally only because of prep.
Yeah, I only prepped by doing 15 LCs over 4 weeks. I, uh, should have done more. But I'm also not SUPER motivated to leave. I'll try to get 200 LC done and understood before the next one if I wait a year.
I thought I did great on design (given my interaction with the interviewer), great on some easy questions, and okay on hard questions. One hard question I definitely didn't hit an optimal solution, but got a suboptimal solution out. The other hard question, I got 95% of the algorithm correct, but the last piece just didn't come to me.
But will still be mulling it over over the course of the weekend.
[Blind] Check out this post! Is it possible to get 300+K TC from google for a L4 offer (Tech Lounge)
https://us.teamblind.com/s/KipxO7xx
Thanks once again, topCon! You always have great advice!
I really want to work at Google someday just to give it a try. But lol, not like this.
I benefited from subscribing to dailycodingproblem.com for couple of months. I've paused it now, but will resume doing it after I'm done with relocation.
You could wind up doing really boring work.
Thanks for your response!!
Also, i assume this is for seattle?