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- Google L5 Looking For Teams Just got a call from Google recruiter that I have been approved for L5 and am moving to team matching phase. Looking for roles in NYC or full remote only. Interested in back-end: distributed systems / big data and ML. If there's anyone from Google on here and your team is hiring please DM with info
- vote Amazon L6 vs Google L5 vs Meta E6 Which one would you choose without considering TC or Perks? Currently work at Amazon, got offer from Meta. Cancelled Google L5 onsite because I wanted L6 for the loop. If I want I can go for the on site for L5. TC: 500k+
- Google L5 Hello people, Wanted to know is it feasible for me to crack Google L5 even if I don't have on job experience in distributed systems and system design? Also, how tough will it be to survive the L5 expectations if I get the offer? YOE : 7 TC : 52LPA (33LPA+3.3LPA+15.7LPA) (base+bonus+stocks) #goog
- Max Google L5 offer Hey Blind Fam! Looking for a change of scenery from FB. Got a Google L5 offer that is only lukewarm: about 385k with no potential of going higher with stacked refreshers due to the new front loaded vesting schedule. The feedback was to get a competing offer if I want to negotiate more. So now I go
- vote Amazon L5 to Google L5. Possible? (Yet another Amazonian testing waters before 4 year anniversary) I’m L5 SDE at amazon with experience in 2 key AWS services. Joined as SDE 1 and got promoted later. Currently I’ve started working on my L6 promo doc and expect it to go through next year. I’m looking for a switch now hopefully to a
- Google L5 offer negotiation Should I be satisfied with this Google L5 offer and stop negotiation? Especially given my yoe and background Base: 200k RSU: 550k Bonus: 15% Sign-on: 0 Background: cs bachelor + 3.5yoe Other offers: still waiting for doordash L5 onsite result #offer #google #googlel5 #doordash
- link Google L5 offer Got an offer from Google for Level 5 and need some help with the compensation numbers. The numbers I gave initially to the recruiter are 200/600/40. This is based on the median range in levels.fyi for my Yoe. I have a competing L5 offer from facebook and numbers are 200/637/95. 15% Bonus. Also,
- Google Lowball L5 I got an offer from google YoE 5 Loc seattle Base: 185 Rsu 380 (33 / 33 / 28 / 16) Bonus 50 I have 3 competing offers all well above Google offer (400k+). Google is not willing to budge at all. Obviously if they don't budge I'm going somewhere else. But I'm wondering is Google really not going to
- vote Are L5 at Google still talented? I’ve noticed an influx of E5 being hired into Meta in the last few months and their talent is noticeably lower than it was a year ago. We’re currently at 120k hires and looking to hire 50k more so there will obviously be lower talent slipped through, but the ratios seem absurd. We have a title infla
- Google L5 Offer I finally landed a L5 offer at Google Seattle. Thanks Blind community for pointers on preparation and most importantly on offer negotiation. Base: 160K Year end Bonus: 15% RSU: 550K(1st year 40%, 2nd year 28%, 3rd 20%, 4th year 12%) I prepared for 2 months using Cracking the coding Interview, LC,
- L5 salary at Google? What's the l5 salary at Google these days?
- Google L5 vs. Accenture director Which one you will take? TC is same, base is very high in Accenture. #tech
- vote google l4 vs amazon l5 Ask for a friend google l4 Infra 285k, Amazon AWS seattle l5 365k. I can’t provide him any advice. He has 6 YOE. TC 350k
- Google L5 Data Analyst TC Hi Community, I need help with Google TC for L5 Data Analyst positions, as I am currently in the negotiation phase with the recruiter. Does anybody have L5 range reference? YOE: ~ 8 yrs #dataanalytics #data #googletc
- Google L5 Offer Review Yoe: 9 Current TC: 320 (Base: 190k, Rest: Bonus + SSA) Location: Seattle Level: L5 Location: Seattle Base: 200k Bonus: 15% (30k) Sign-On: 50k Stock: 650k (33%, 33%, 22%, 12%) #tech #google #l5
- vote Google L5 offer 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
- vote Google L5 vs Snap L5 I am in the team matching process with both companies so far. I will update this thread when I get more data points. Would you mind sharing some advice from the impact, career growth aspect? Google Location: Seattle TC: around 395k Pro: Ok, it is a dream company..... Cloud will likely continue bein
- GCP TAM salary expectations for L5 NYC? GCP TAM salary expectations for L5 NYC? Current Job - AWS TAM L5 Current TC - $240k #google
- Google PM L5 I just cleared the Google PM onsite. I am being considered for L5. I have been asked to provide my expected TC. Should I propose numbers or hold out.
- Google L5 Timeline I had all rounds a week back but recruiter still waiting to share results. Is google really slow for debrief ? Anyone with similar exp while interviewing with G ? edit: Recruiter confirmed they want to send packet to HC.
- L5 google interview 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
- Google: Interviewed L5. HC approved L4. L5 appeal to be re-considered at L5 I recently completed an L5 loop. I felt good about the interview. But HC recommended L4. The recruiter said I could appeal and have another round of interviews consisting of a coding interview and a system design, they could proceed with team matching at L4 or we could do both in case we couldn’t
- L5 Google offer 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
- vote Google Onsite Evaluation (L5) I recently completed my Google virtual on-sites for a ML SWE role and recruiter came back last week with this initial feedback for an L5 evaluation (given I had competing offer): - Coding 1 : Lean No Hire - Coding 2 : Lean Hire - Coding 3 : Lean No Hire - Googlyness : Strong Hire - ML + Sys Design
- Google L3 (downlevel) / Amazon L5 Recently got downleveled to L3 after Google interview. Recruiter told me she thought we could get L4 but HC decided against it. It was my first onsite since college and I didn't have a lot of free time to LC so it's understandable. Recruiter said current offer would be 220k for Seattle which is bas
- Google L5 negotiation I'm currently L5 YoE 15 TC 350k SWE bay area I have an offer from other company. 420k TC, would Google will be willing to give me more $$$ to stay? Latest perf cycles SEE, SEE, team is 2 head counts down and 2 big projects at risk #software #swe #google
- Google L5 vs Microsoft L65 offer comparisons Got two offers: 1. Microsoft L65, remote position in LA, base 220k, RSU 300K, signon 100K, 20% target bonus. assuming stock refresher can be ignored year1: 389k year2: 389k year3: 339k year4: 339k after 4 years: 264K if there is no big stock refreshers. 2. google L5, Bay area, base 186K, RSU 460K,
- Google L5 Business Analyst Hi, I got an offer for a L5 Business Analyst role (Non-Tech, Business Analyst ladder) Base: $160,000 GSU: $210,000 over 4 years (33:33:22:12) Bonus: 15% TC comes down to: $236,500 (dividing RSUs equally over 4 years). I don't want to accept unless TC is $300,000. Will this be within the L5 band?
- vote Google L4 vs Coinbase L5 Got an L4 offer for Google and L5 offer for Coinbase. Haven't discussed comp yet with G, but Coinbase is offering ~400k. Is it worth joining Coinbase over G? TC300 Yoe6
- vote Google L5 hire chances I interviewed with Google last week for L5. Had 3coding, 1design and 1behavioral round. 1st coding- binary tree question. Came up with 2approaches. Wrote the working code for one approach. Interviewer initially found a mistake in my code, but when I explained that it’s not a mistake, he was convinc
- Google L5 offer What is the usual L5 offer at google? Tc:220k Yoe: 7 #google
- L4 to L5 Google? Interviewed with Google recently and the recruiter said based on the feedback they think I’m an L4 I have 5 yoe at MSFT. Any chance I can push for L5 instead? How? Will I have to do additional interviews?
- Google onsite L5 I attended Google onsite for L5 and got low scores in HC. So recruiter asked whether I am ok to try for L4. I am ok run same application with L4 HC. But recruiter hasnt got back yet. Its been 2 weeks. Has this happened to anyone? I have 5+ YOE. I had solved questions in all rounds(only couldn’t catc
- Google offer L5 update 3/1: I got this offer after negotiation: base: $210k sign on: $40k target bonus: 15% stock grant: $825k ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am in the offer stage with Google (L5). The recruiter is asking for my expectation. What's the typical range for L5 offers? TC: ~$425k due
- vote Evaluate my Google L5 offer Seattle based, L5 SWE offer. Base: 190k Bonus: 15% RSU: 520k / 4 yr Signon cash: 60k 1st year TC: 450k 2nd year TC: 390k If not great offer, what is the max they can go? YoE: 10
- vote Google l4 or l5 interview I am interviewing at Google for software engineering, machine learning. I have 3.5 years of relevant experience (8 years total) after Master's. The recruiter told me I should go for L4 interview but I can go for L5 interview. For L5, I will have an extra ML system design round. She cautioned that so
- Failed Google L5 loop Recruiter informed me that system design went well but I need to work on coding. I feel pretty terrible. I was expecting system design to be no hire but coding bar to be met. Should have interviewed for L4 😔#tech #sad YOE:5.5 TC:205k
- Google L5 interviews Had an L4 loop (4 coding, 1 behavior) with Google last month, which went really well. (There was a confusion with the recruiter, the intended level was L5) Got approval from HC for L4 but the recruiter asked for two additional coding and one system design for L5. Had two coding interviews today wh
- Google L5 offer eval For Bay Area, SWE - ML Base: 210 Stocks (front loaded): 450 Bonus: 15% Sign on (one-time): 30 First year TC: 420 Second year TC: 390 Is this average/high/low?
- vote Snap L5 vs Google L5 Don’t have numbers yet but expect them to be ~$500k for Snap and ~$400k for Google. Should I take more money or Google on my resume? #google #snap TC: $350k YOE: 10
- Google L5 consultant interviews Going to go for interviews at Google in the coming days Consultant role in professional services I am a team lead at a non FAANG company currently and make a base of 235k and 18% bonus (so approx TC 277k) no stocks YOE - 19 years What kind of behavioral questions should I expect please ? They t
- Google L5 500k possible Hello Cleared HC and would start the comp discussion soon. Currently L6 SDE at Amazon and making 585k due to Stocks increase. Recruiter said we will try for the max but it might not be the number I am looking for. Can Google give 500k for L5? Whats the max for L5 Software Engineer at Google in Ba
- Non Traditional Path to Google L5 SWE I've been on blind for a little over a year now and with all the negativity, I wanted to (hopefully) share some positive encouragement for those looking to break into FAANG. As the title states, I had a very unconventional path to ending up at Google. My undergrad was in Physics. Sure we had to tak
- vote Google L5 to Meta L6 Currently Amazon L6 (5 years with 1 yr as Senior) and planning to join Google L5. If I stay at Google for 1 year, then can I move to Meta as L6? Essentially, can someone with 2 year experience as Senior, move to Meta L6? Please vote only if you have tried making a similar move. Please also add comm
- Google L5 India refreshers Hi, In line to get an offer from Google L5 soon. Can someone from Google India at L5 or other levels comment on how much stock refreshers granted on a year to year basis? Current TC : ~80 L
- Google hardware offer L5 vs Nvidia IC5 Google L5 HW, Sunnyvale Offer1: Base: 225k RSU: 475k (over 4yr 33,33,22,12) Bonus:15% Joining: 50k Offer2: Nvidia IC5 HW, Santa Clara Base 240K RSU: 520K (over 4yr 25,25,25,25) Joining: 30K Current TC: 285, Yoe:13 #hardware #semiconductor #interview #nvidia #google
- Google L5 -> Facebook E6? I'm L5 at Google for about a year. Aiming at promo is not irrealistic but will be a lot of work and is financially less beneficial than jump ship. Is it realistic to hope for an E6 offer from FB? I told the recruiter directly I'm only interested in E6. YOE: 10 TC: 350K
- Amazon L5 to Google L5 Hi I recently gave an interview for Google for an L5 role... the interview went pretty good. Waiting for the final decision from HC What are my chances as we are talking about an up leveling.. I have almost 8 yoe. 4.5 years in amazon
- Google L5 data point Base 225k Bonus 15% Equity 650k Sign on 50k
- Google L5 System design I have an upcoming onsite interview for sde L5 with google. Do they ask the normal 'grokking the system design' type questions to design FB, twitter etc. or will it be more indepth? Tia. Tc:220k