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- Expectations in terms of experience and interview performance for Google L4? How comfortable should I be with LC Hards? What technical questions that are not LC should I prepare for? Should I expect system design? What do they look for in terms of YOE and on the resume? I spent a year doing SDET at Apple, does that contribute towards "YOE"? Thanks! Sorry if this has been as
- How do you get higher than a CME during your first performance cycle at Google? I just started at Google last week. My goal is to get higher than a CME for my first performance cycle. How do I do this? I’m an L4 who wants to get promoted to L5. Thanks! TC: 300k #Performance #cme
- Will Google try to match offer even if my interview performance is not extraordinary? Getting multiple offers now and waiting for Google's team matching. We are moving forward fast (due to the offers I have) so I scheduled two HM meeting for the team matchings but my recruiter mentioned I have mixed signals from interview feedbacks and it didn't go through HC review yet. Not sure if
- Being a top performer as a new grad at Google As I have just started, and initial 6 months typically go in training and stuff- how do I achieve the top performer rating in first performance evaluation cycle. Looking for genuine advice and suggestions. Thanks in advance.
- What is average performance based RSU’s allotment for Google L5 Program Manager? Trying to assess what happens after year 1 with TC for at GOOG L5 Program Manager in Sunnyvale. Would like to know what are the average ranges of performance based RSU’s for L5- min, max and avg? Any thoughts? I feel like I am being under leveled at goog, I know nothing new but am trying to know w
- does google pip? more, or less, than say amzn/fb/ms? curious about what the google process is for managing out folks, and how frequently do you see it happening. @google
- vote Do you still aspire to work at Google given their mediocre stock performance? They also lowball, down level and give average refreshers. TC:300K
- What interview performance aspects separate a Google L4 hire from an L3 hire ? I am currently preparing for a Google onsite 3 weeks from now. Feel fairly prepared having tackled a large number of Leetcode problems and am able to identify patterns and code with speed. My recruiter told me I'm being considered for L4 and should largely get DSA questions that might have a bit of
- link Google Employees: Curious your thoughts on performance cycle being delayed. Do you feel they've struck a fair balance? https://www.businessinsider.com/google-delays-employee-performance-reviews-promotions-covid-19-2020-3 #coronavirus
- Google Manager L6, good performance interview, what are the probabilities to pass the committee? Hi. I had an interview with Google as L6 manager and recruiter called me next day to say feedback is positive. In Addition, an interested Manager I met before the loop is asking me to meet his team... I had 2 references at Google (Manager and TL) that can provide positive feedback. What are the chan
- vote [Google] If I performed badly in the design round will I be downleveled or outright rejected? If the coding rounds were good but design round was a disaster
- L6 doing L4 work mostly. How do l6 sustain their performance? There aren't many l6 projects at Google. How do people at l6 people sustain their performance? I mostly see them.doing l4 or l5 work. Do they get CME for such work? Or are they required to take ambiguous projects all the time?
- How to go from 4g/5g systems performance roles in telecom to 5g roles in google,Amazon etc I have a good amout of wireless systems performance experience as well as some python and cloud exposure...i want to target 5g related roles in Amazon,apple or other big non telecom companies in next few years...what relevant skills,trainings should i add to be competitive...was thinking of doing ma
- What do stock refreshers look like at Google for high performing IC? As compared to same at Apple? For instance IC4/5
- Google and FB PMs - what do you think about the correlation between PM interview and on the job performance? Particularly interested in hearing from interviewers
- vote Do you think Amazon's pip culture will effect the stability of AWS thus warrant using gcp or azure instead? 250
- link Is Google becoming like Amazon? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/google-says-its-raising-employee-pay-in-performance-review-revamp.html
- link So Google is increasing pay and changing Annual Review process https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/google-says-its-raising-employee-pay-in-performance-review-revamp.html #google
- Google’s getting absolutely ridiculous My friend who’s a Senior (IC5) at Meta just got approved for L3 at Google 😂😂😂 (recruiter said Senior Leadership wouldnt budge on level). For those who don’t know, L3 is new grad lmfao Edit: a lot of people saying my friend just performed at an L3 level. It’s possible ofc, since I wasn’t there fo
- link Google is in process of increasing pay and promo process revamp https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/google-says-its-raising-employee-pay-in-performance-review-revamp.html
- vote 3 Software Engineering Offers, help me choose one TikTok (2-1): TC-360K (Base-230K, Stock-30K, Performance Bonus-25%, SignOn- 40K) Google (L3): TC- 240K (Base-160K, Stock-80K) Cruise (start up, therefore stock is paper money): TC- 380K (Base-200k, Stock-120k, SignOn-60k) Current TC - 215K and 3 YOE
- No one discuss the GRAD from Google? Heard Google is going to perform GRAD for reviews: there will 6% called MI and 2% called NE, sounds like dev and pip from Amazon. So strange I did not find this topic, it is hard quota and could be abused.
- I keep getting rejects everywhere On pip rejected from Microsoft, Twitter , DoorDash, Bloomberg, Salesforce, Airbnb Last one with Bloomberg I thought I did super well but I’m thinking that they didn’t liked my answer on the focus on deliver ASAP which we have at Amazon. Most rejects were at behavioral stage, I assume maybe Amazon
- vote Google doesn’t lowball in India Idk why folks keep saying google low balls in India. I think, I got a good offer from them. Base : 39lac Performance : 15% Joining bonus: 9lac Stocks: 1Lac USD front loaded Level: L4 Yoe: 6 What do other guys who have L4 offers from India think? Do you still think this is a lowball
- vote Need help selecting offer Currently in Google, L5, TC 450k, 10 YOE (all 10 in Google) Interviewed at 10 companies, all for Google L6 equivalent roles, got rejected by 4 (Doordash, Instacart, Roblox, Waymo), got counter offers for lower level by 3 (Chime, Cruise, Facebook). Amazon does not have a L6 equivalent level. Indeed
- Who here was PIPed at Amazon and went to join a good company after? Looking for people rated LE (least effective), failed the PIP, fired and then joined Google, Meta or another top company and now doing very well there. How did you turn your life around?
- As a junior, I now realize that Blind will make you feel bad for literally any job Once I got into Amazon over a year ago, I read Blind and it was all "Amazon on your resume is a red flag" and bad WLB, bad pay, PIP, bananas, blah blah. Now I get an offer from Google, and it's all "lol getting into Google is a joke now" and lowballing, fake prestige, might as well join Amazon. No
- Should I leave Google? I got an offer from amazon 5 months ago for TC of 335k SDE2 Google gave me 328k for L4 since I had Amazon, so I have joined Google. I have received couple of email from Amazon that they are still interested and open to renegotiate the offer. They said they will increase 25% which makes it 418k.
- vote Ranking PiP factories Which company have highest pip % per year? Data from random posts: -Coinbase pip every 3 months for low performer. -Amazon have forced attrition via pip every year. -Robinhood just joined prestigious pip club. No data yet. -Google GCP group. Ex-Oracle Kurian changing google gcp culture. - Microsoft
- Meta Budget cuts?? Google Layoffs?? I have read articles about meta Budget cuts and Google cloud support layoffs . But i see the Google atleast has been performing well. Wanted to understand the first hand experience of people.. is this something that's gonna take route to mass lay offs?
- Why does software pay much more than hardware when you need the hardware to run the software? Without high performance HW, you can't run the FB and Google algorithms, etc. So why do even these companies themselves pay hw much less than sw?
- vote Google L3 vs Amazon L5 2 YOE, recently promoted to L5 at Amazon. Current TC is 260k. I like my team and WLB is okay (40-50 hours / week). But I am very afraid of PIP, perhaps irrationally. Google downleveled me to L3. They are offering 265k. I don’t have competing offers. I assume that means I can’t negotiate it any high
- What's better than Google these days Over the past few months, I've noticed increasing amounts of negative sentiment towards Google on Blind. Sure, these complaints are probably justified. Lowball, downleveling, lower hiring bar (?), new perf rating, low career growth, etc. Genuine question though, what companies are actually better
- Compilation of companies with bad WLB and/or high fire risk for under-performers Bad WLB but low fire risk for under-performers: Microsoft Azure GCP Good WLB but high fire risk for under-performers: Netflix (?) Bad WLB and high fire risk for under-performers: Amazon Meta Stripe Bonus 1: Good WLB and low fire risk for under-performers: Google non-GCP Microsoft non-Azure Linked
- vote [India] Google L4 vs MS L63 at 10 YOE I am SDE-II at Amazon. Have offers from Google and MS. Offer numbers: MS Fixed : 42 LPA + upto 30% performance bonus Stock : 30 LPA Signon : 8L + 4L Google Fixed : 37 LPA + 15% performance bonus Stock : 36 LPA Signon : 11L Amazon(current) Fixed : 32 LPA Stock : 33 LPA Please help me choosing
- vote Poll : cracking Google tech rounds For those who cracked Google interview in last 1 year, how was your performance on the Coding rounds. When answering please focus on the majority that is overall performance of the 3 rounds. Note : SWE positions only. TC - 250k Yoe 7
- PIP is the best mechanism at Amazon and I’m glad other companies are adopting it Congrats Google on lighting a fire under rest and vest types and getting a PIP plan. Nobody driven wants to work with lazy or stupid people who squeeze through the cracks by getting lucky at the interview. To keep a company effective, allow high TC and create growth opportunities for talent we have
- Wtf is Google GRAD? Is it true that Google now has 8% pip quota in the new change? I need to respond to their offer today and I don't want to join another Amazon
- How do you cope with being on cooldown at Google (and others) Feeling like a failure. And all the google recruiters that continue to email me, I’ve tried to move forward with them, but I get that eventual reminded of how I’ve failed and must wait to try again in a year. I don’t know what to think. I get terrible performance anxiety, I get the feeling that the
- Since google sucks now, which is the top company to strive for? Google used to be among the best but the last few months: -lowballs -downlevels -low TC -misleading offers (front-loading scam) -slow promos -no impact -very slow hiring -forced return to office And now Google is going to start putting people in Pip much more than before. Unlikely to remain a chil
- Bombed half of onsite rounds at Google, still got offer Recently went for onsite at Google. Can’t discuss specific questions due to NDA. Round 1: Hard DP question, went down the wrong path for half the duration of the round. Got multiple hints from interviewer. Didn’t have time to verify that solution worked. Round 2: Graph traversal question. Did well
- vote Google Vs Amazon Got offers from Amazon(New grad)and Google(L3). Google is just matching Amazon’s offer after negotiation. Google’s interview process was very hard. I don’t feel the offer doesn’t pay of that hard work. Is it worth to accept offer from Google? Please share your thoughts. Google(L3) offer: Base-152K,
- It's getting harder to retain talent <rant> For some reason Google seems unwilling to compensate rank and file Googlers well - and the discretionary pool is getting smaller and smaller for the number of high performers. I am going to lose a bunch of good people in the coming months and there is very little I can do about it. Extremely annoyi
- Noogler question Joining Google soon. I was asked to pick my preferences for new equipment. There were two kinds (ultraportable vs high performing) for each platform (chromebook, macbook, windows). Since my work will involve iOS, naturally I picked high performing macbook. But I’m curious about the chromebook optio
- vote < 8 month noogler(?) on pip 🥺 Hi, Long story short, I am a self-taught Software Engineer. I got into Google purely through pounding leetcode to the point of getting good at coding competitions. While grinding leetcode for 4 years I worked at a few small < 8 people companies to “build my resume” but didn’t learn anything at a
- vote Why apple needs Amazon PIP Amazon maintains its status as Earth's #1 employer and most innovative company in the universe today. Google, Microsoft, apple. These are now dinosaurs, consistently failing to innovate at all turns, lagging behind Amazon. How does Amazon maintain its success ? The great work ethic. The performanc
- vote Do you like Google’s new performance evaluation changes? Google is adopting a new performance evaluation system that will supposedly be more based on an individual’s impact. Do you like the changes? (Vote for popcorn if you don’t know whether you like them) Tc 100k
- vote Unpopular opinion - PIP culture is good You can't tell if someone could do their job well from 4-5 interviews. Aggressively PIPing low performers is important to remove bad hires. Bad hires lower the engineering standard and increase costs -- hence reducing available budget and headcount for the high performers. Concern: PIP is cruel a
- Google L5 Product Manager Salary Hi Folks, I recently cleared the interview stage and got offered an L5 Product Manager (Hardware) at Google. I'll be having a call very soon with the recruiter about salary. Would be great to know what kind of salary (or salary range) I should expect and how it's broken down .i.e. Base Pay Stocks S
- Can you negotiate your PIP severance? I was just put on PIP but I’m already quitting anyways lmao. I have a job lined up with a Google Can I negotiate for a higher severance package lmao?