How much can I stretch Google's offer(in San Bruno) when I have this competing SDE2 L5 offer from Amazon Seattle : 150k base + 62k first year bonus + 47k seconds year bonus + 150k USD stocks? Google hasn't yet given an initial offer. I have been pressing them for an offer that matches Amazon's with living expenses adjusted! Is there a base salary cap the recruiter's gonna tell me about? What about the stocks? Can they go to 400k of stocks in 4 years? How do the joining bonuses look like? My interviews went really well and they confirmed that I was selected in 2 days. Now I have team match calls with 2 managers this coming Monday. (I interviewed last Monday)
I’ve been told team Matching happens before HC these days, are you sure you’ve gone through that?
Yes, according to the recruiter the HC has already approved. The interview questions were medium to hard difficult levels on leetcode. More like more difficult medium problems. I did 500+ problems on leetcode over 3 months. It might sound a lot but since I had done algorithmic and competitive programming before, it wasn't that bad for me.
Nice! Congrats. What was your prep like? What kind of questions did they ask in the interview?
yoe?
3. I've had experience in FAANG companies before though
If it went really well, why did you get l3 and not l4? Let them come with an offer and then disclose the numbers from amazon offer if they do not beat it. Always try to get a number from them before you give up all your cards. With that said, I went through this very recently and amazon came 100k above google’s offer. Google did not match it but came closer. About halfway there. I also got l3 offer at G while getting SDE2 at amazon.
levels.fyi claims L5 amazon is L4 Google. So getting the same comp as L3 will be hard.