I would really love to join Google, but they lowball too much! Does anyone know why that is?
I’ve recently interviewed at FAANG and I feel my interview performance has been consistent across all the companies, yet the results were very different:
FB: E5 offer, ~390k TC
Netflix: ~400k TC
Google: L4 offer, < 300k TC (~270)
So, even if I really would like to join Google, it won’t be the smart move for me.
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Shame that everyone votes G over FB then 😆
Google is the only job I have ever had so maybe I have bias. But I do have many FANG friends. I feel that it's fair to say the above.
The problem is that they don't want to give you L5 which makes your package significantly lower than expectation. It's a normal package for L4.
Btw, Google is a much better place to work than FB or NFLX, and Google recruiters know it. In a recent Blind poll, 92% of Netflixers, 76% of Amazonians and 46% of FB'ers are afraid of being fired. That should show you the toxicity of their cultures. At Google, that number is 16%.
I will admit that the sample sizes in the poll may not be significant for a p-value of 0.05 in statistically testing the hypothesis that FB's SWE PIP fear rate is higher than that of the average, for all companies in the poll. However, for Amazon and Netflix it obviously is without even running the numbers.
EDIT: percentages may be slightly off because I last calculated them when that poll was published, memorized them and haven't recalculated since. But they're not far off
Reject the offer. Both are same tier.