benefit, brand, above average salary, free food, good people in general
promo super slow, do not reward high performers, encourage coaster
I have a hedge fund offer in Chicago Base 140k Guaranteed bonus 50k Sign on 20k Position offered : senior software developer What should be an equivalent ask for Google mountain view ? Position at Google offered :L3 Current tc : 130k Yoe: 1
Joining soon! What all can we buy from the 1000$ fund? Will have to submit claims early on only so would appreciate suggestions. :) (Btw I’m planning to buy an iPad for myself.. I’m guessing there’s no chance that’d possible through this fund right?) #tech #offer #google Yoe 2 Offered L3, TC: aro...Read more
Sundar Pichai Chief Executive Officer Alphabet Mountain View, CA 94043 Cc: Board of Directors 20* January 2023 Dear Sundar, I have appreciated our recent dialogue concerning Alphabet's cost base. I am encouraged to see that you are now taking some action to right size Alphabet's cost base and under...Read more
Google L6 and likely get L7 promotion in the next 2 cycles. TC this year is about ~650 A well known Hedge Fund offered me 750. Will you take the offer? I’m leaning toward rejecting the offer. What TC will you leave Google for? Assumming good WLB at hedge fund 40-45 hrs/week and the work is intere...Read more
Hello everyone, I work for Google as a SWE in EMEA. I like my work, managers and colleagues are smart and friendly. I have some room for career growth. WLB is great. I was however recently toying with the idea of joining a hedge fund because they are generally very smart people too and pay really r...Read more
I have an offer from Google India (L4) and an offer from Quant Fund (Hong Kong) Quant Fund comp: Base: 865k HKD Bonus: 300-500 HKD I have not received numbers from Google yet, but the recruiter mentioned that I have Hire in all rounds so my packet is pretty strong. Google is just too slow in doi...Read more
Given similar TC (~250k) what would you choose in the early stage of career (new grad, BS)? Hedge fund say one of Two Sigma, Citadel, DEShaw Both involve applied machine learning, in a different context Both problem domains are academically interesting and challenging Am curious to know which di...Read more
Reviewing an ds offer from a hedge fund. The gauranteed base and bonus is lower than my current Tc ( current tc is inflated by recent stock appreciation) but with sign on and bonus, the Tc at the hedge fund is about 5%- 10% higher for the first 2 years. Should i make the move? Wlb is slightly worse ...Read more
Erie similarities with Meta’s: request from another hedge fund followed by Meta’s layoffs https://www.wsj.com/articles/activist-investor-calls-on-google-parent-alphabet-to-slash-costs-11668528859
Hi, I am wondering if we have any Google employee private angel funding group. If yes, how to find it? #investments #google
I’m a new grad looking for my first job out of college. I know questions like this get asked all the time but I feel that the response will be different due to the current economic downturn. I have offers from Google, Facebook, Robinhood, and a hedge fund. Facebook - 118/160/65 Google - 118/180/50 ...Read more
New Grad here. Got an offer for a hedge fund 200 base, 100 bonus, 75 sign on. I want to join Google. I am wondering how do I negotiate with Google to get around 126/ 250 stock/ 100 sign on? What should be my initial ask? Talking with my recruiter, she said G only matches around 80% of hedge fund ...Read more
I’m currently an L5 UX Engineer (similar to front-end SWE). My base is 170k and total comp this year will be around 340k. In a year I might be able to get to L6 and work remotely. I’ve been at Google almost 8 years. I’m comfortable, but sometimes frustrated. I have an offer from a privately equity ...Read more
TCI is asking for more layoffs, reduction in compensation and reduction in stock awards
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/10/google-expands-work-from-home-recommendation-to-all-north-american-employees-establishes-covid-19-fund/ #google
If you work for Meta/Google etc VCs will take you more seriously. You also get to network with the management etc and even if your product doesn't get that much traction you can sell it off ??
https://twitter.com/benss/status/1054095677142249473?s=21
Which would be better for long term career outlook for a SWE? F/G could lead to product/EM roles that lead to tech executive or startups which is obviously amazing. What can HF lead to? Becoming a quant instead of a dev? Does that happen? Are there any cool financial exits? # #tech #finance #hedgefu...Read more
Does Blind agree with France? https://www.thelocal.fr/20190822/france-tech-giants-like-google-do-not-contribute-to-funding-the-common-good
Assuming the same TC, between an offer from Google (stocks traded in exchange) and a startup funded by sovereign wealth fund and big banks (stocks growth depending on IPO); which offer will you accept?