Benefits are fantastic, work can be challenging in a good way, opportunity for scale is top tier.
Management is utterly clueless. Middle management layer is actively eroding value in the pursuit of self preservation. Cultish thinking leads some Googlers to lack perspective.
Senior SDE offer Location: Seattle Base: 181k Equity: 361k Sign-on bonus: 20k Thoughts? They are not budging at all unless I have a competing offer. How can I negotiate without competing offer? Yoe: 7 #engineering #google #offer #swe
After months of interview and negotiations, Google gave me a final offer which is significantly lower than what I asked for. These are the final numbers Base - 215, 15 % target bonus RSU - 415 for 4 years( 33/33/22/11 split) I find it frustrating because this is even lower than what I have receive...Read more
Recently quit my job at Facebook and will be joining Google soon. Got a lot of good information from the Blind community with regards to interview process, compensation, expectations, etc. and wanted to pay that forward. E5@FB (ML profile, no masters/PhD, worked there for 6 years) Base: 190k Unvest...Read more
#interview Any tips on showing L5 capability Vs L4 capability in Google hardware final round? Can’t provide any further role details. Currently Amazon L5 YOE: 6 TC:220k
Hi, what is the max of L5 offer at Google? A friend of mine got a very lowball offer from Google and the manager said they maxed out the offer. Is that corrct? Appreciate any info. Thanks Base: 180k Rsu: 395k Bonus:70k
I’ve got an updated offer, previous one was apparently the proposed comp (that wasn’t clear). New one is below and feels like it’s below the average L5 offer from levels.fyi but it’s better than no offer. Curious to hear what others think. Old TC: IC6 @ $480k, but laid off => $0 YOE 10+ If anyon
I am 12 yoe, currently at Qualcomm San Diego. TC is ~370k with current stock price. Skillset is HW ASIC in one of the core team. Senior staff. I got a L5 offer from Google SoC team. Location is Sunnyvale. Base 205k RSU is 550k front loaded. 33-33-22-12 Sign on 25k Basically 1st year is 400k at Goo...Read more
recruiter says interview feedback is positive and they will send the feedbacks to the hiring committee and then do team match. 1) Wonder what are some good teams at YouTube or non cloud org? Ideally wanted to work on a smaller consumer products with end user exposure. Are there incubator type of p...Read more
First of all, THANK YOU to all of you on Blind that have shared tips on how to navigate the interview process at large tech companies. I'm hoping to do the same with this post. YOE: 4 - SWE Education: Master’s degree in ECE. Did not do a thesis. Did not specialize in anything either. Offers: Goog...Read more
I got an L5 google offer in Mountain View. Please let me know if this is a good offer or not? TC: $380,500 first year Base: $170K Bonus: 15% ($25.5K) Equity: $540K Sign on: $50K PhD in computer vision and deep learning Yoe: ~6 years: 3.5 after PhD, 2+ before
Thinking of doing FB ->; Snap. Snap L5 $200k base, $1.5M RSU $50k sign on = $600k.. some serious dough.. Google L5 $180k base $700k RSU $50k sign on = $380k or so.. which is less than my TC. Currently E5 making $400k (3rd year at FB. stock has been flat past 2 years) Snap is in LA, Google is
After all the negotiations , just signed the following L5 offer. Base : 225 Bonus: standard 15% Signon: 60k GSUs: 450k Location: bay area I really think I should have pushed a bit more on the stock. But my competing offer at square(other were LinkedIn and a couple of startups). was on the same line...Read more
8 years at Google. L5 growing into L6 but it seems at least a year away. Management is okay but their focus for career growth has been on another candidate. So started interviewing at Meta and finally got an offer today. Have decided to join them (blind created poll by default after adding current T...Read more
Hey guys, After a long and gruelling process, finally got L5 approval from VP and HC. I'm currently a L5a at Uber and I think G's L5 is an uplevel compared to L5a at Uber. Still, given the pay is same, do you guys think I should definitely accept Google L5? I think there is upside potential with U...Read more
Joined FB as E4 in May 2019. Ratings: 2019 H1: Too new to evaluate 2019 H2: Meets All, no promo (manager already told me) Promo after 2020 H1 unlikely. Don't have good projects in my team to show impact and direction. Also other senior ICs have the lead on projects already, and it's hard for me to ...Read more
Cleared the E6 loop. Waiting for team match. Based in USPP and not interested in relocation. I like my team at G and the work has been chill. Rarely worked more than 40h a week and in most cases I can get by with probably 35h. Mostly set my own work and work at my own pace but it's getting frustrat...Read more
I have been told by Google recruiter that based on my total yoe (10) i will be interviewing for a Sr engineer (L5) role. Almost 4 years ago i interviewed for L4 but got rejected at onsite. im wondering if the bar for L5 is even higher than L4? If my goal is to just get into Google should i just tell...Read more
Hi, I got initial verbal offer from Google as below: Base: 50L Bonus: 15% Joining RSU: $120k this is pretty low ball as initial offer which I declined. My current: YOE: 18 TC: $300K + base + bonus Anyone got recently into L5? What TC you got? #google #L5 #compensation #indiasalary
UPDATE: Instacart offer got lowered. See below for details. Current Google L5 TC (7.5 YOE): Base: 174k RSUs: 109k (grant value); 190k (vest value) Yearly bonus: 35k Refresher: 135k/4 TC (grant value): 320k TC (vest value): 400k Instacart L5 offer: Base: 220k (final: 200k) RSUs: 760k/4 Sign-on bon...Read more