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- Was I lowballed? I was hired as a L4 technical solution consultant (AI/ML). Worked for about ~3 years in data science education space and have a masters in statistics. Didn’t negotiate my salary due to some personal circumstances and also didn’t think I’d get into Google. Context: company wise and team wise survey
- This is why Google lowballs There are tons of future Noogler waiting in line to join Google and post pic with Noogler hat and confetti. “This was my dream gmail -> google.com” Now it makes sense. Completely makes sense. Please “comment for better reach” or “++” 🤣🤣🤣 #futureNoogler #linkedin
- vote Apple ICT3 lowball offer? Got an offer from Apple for an ICT3 Software Engineering role in Cupertino. The recruiter told me the typical ICT3 (mid level) salary is as below: base salary: 135K stock : 130K over 4 years Current TC: 180k YOE: 3 years I checked levels fyi and the numbers on there seem much higher, but not sure
- Lowballed I joined Google early this year. I realized that most my previous co-workers either kept their level or got promoted when they transferred to Google. I was the only one who got downgraded. Eventually I became same level as the person who was 2 levels under me in previous work. It really bothers me
- Google lowball Just received an offer from Google downleveling me to L3. They offered me $150k base, but my current base is $172k. If I provide my current salary and TC to my recruiter, will they match it? Feels like I’m getting lowballed here. TC $250k YOE 1
- Google lowballing I see a new post everyday complaining about google lowballing compares to meta, snap, hfts and so on. I dont understand how so smart engineers can be so naive, google wants to pay engineers the least it can while it can attract the talent they need as simple as that. If google finds too many of its
- Netflix lowball? Offer: 450K YOE: 8 years . . . . . . . . . . . 💪
- Lowball offer from Meta 140 base, 16% target bonus (edit: sorry typo 15%) 315k equity i have no competing offers, only data point is from working at G, but i quit. am i fucked?
- lowball from Amazon L6 SDM L6 yoe 12 Palo Alto base 165 sign on 1st/2nd yr: 135/100 RSU: 160
- Google lowball + downlevel? I am a L62 at MSFT with decent greenfield projects experience, consistently top performer of my team. The only reason I’m trying to jump ship is my TC cliff. Interviewed for Google L4 last week. Recruiter called today, said not all feedbacks have arrived yet. Feedback so far is mixed. But L4 is loo
- Aws lowballed! When I initial started the loop the recruiter stated the salary being 130-160. I passed the loop and they offered me but much lower than stated. Lowered level to L4. (Non tech role). This seems new grad entry level! I’m an experienced hire. Is this normal from AWS?? Offer Base 90k Sign on yr 1 -1
- Google lowballing 5 YOE. SDE 2 at Amazon, India. My interview with google went pretty good, but was offered L3 role, which is lower than my current level and also lower compensation than my current compensation. Google, Bangalore L3 offer: Base pay: 21 L INR Annual bonus: 3.2 L INR Stocks: 15 L INR (60 L for 4 year
- vote Lowballed or good ? Hello Blind, I recently got an offer from Databricks for senior security engineer role (L5) as below Base : 170k No annual or quarterly bonus RSU : 2800@220 /4 years ( not sure how they are at 220 with recent market dip) TC ~ 325k (after negotiating) #( remote, dallas ,TX) As per blind and leve
- Microsoft Lowballing I recently received an offer from Microsoft for a lv 59. 59 would be cool, I guess, if I didn't already have 4 YOE. I am a senior engineer where I am currently with a lot of freedom and remote work making more money than what the TC of this offer, which would be ~150k. The recruiter said he tried t
- Feeling low after realizing I have been lowballed Edit 2: wow this exploded! The feedback I have received really shows that Blind is indeed a positive place overall! To those saying that the offers are fake: I can say with a high degree of confidence that the Sr. offers that I mentioned here are not fake. I’ve talked to multiple people to understan
- Microsoft offer - lowball? I just received my offer for Microsoft CSAM position. No level indicated in the offer letter. Base offer 100,200 with only $10k in stocks In our initial call, the recruiter stated the range for this role being 115-125. I have 7 Years of relevant experience and am a top performer on my team. I can’
- Google lowball L4 -> L3 Is it worth accepting a Google L3 with 4.5 YOE? Is it possible to negotiate level? Location: Bay Area Expected TC: $255K - $280K Current TC $180K #tech #swe #google
- Google India hard lowball Recently got downleveled by G to L3. Got the following offer - Base - 21 Stock - 65k (33/33/22/12) TC year 1 - 40 lac I have a competing offer - Tc per year: 55-60 ( 40 base, 4 bonus, rest stock, stock is public) I have already given details of competing offer still got lowballed. Yoe: 2-4 Edi
- FB lowball Base 140k Stock 140k Signon 100k Was rockstar intern and expecting 180k base for conversion, how to negotiate this lowball?
- vote Google lowballed the offer Final offer from google: Base: 145k Rsu: 265k Bonus: 22k Location: Bay area Level: L4 No signon. Current TC: 160k Location: Chicago I don’t have any other offers right now, but in final stages at another company. Should I take this offer or Reject? Yoe: 12yrs
- FB lowball I passed the interview for E5 MLE role in FB Seattle. The initial offer is 319k (180 base + 15% bonus + 450k rsu). I think this is a super lowball. How much improvement can I expect? Also, what's the best way to negotiate with them? Thanks. Current TC: 355k (L5 AS) YOE: 5
- Google lowballed Applied for one of the engg team in GCP, location: Bangalore, India, in May. Did well in 4 out of 5 rounds, in one round i got borderline feedback, not negative My packet moved to HC, after 3 weeks, got back with approval Had fit call with manager, things was fine. Then recruiter moved my packet to
- Square Lowball? Just got an ML Engineering offer from Square for ($CAD) 190K TC in Toronto as an L5 Seems a little low to me, given that Amazon gave a verbal offer for ~220K as just an SDE 2 with no ML knowledge required Does Square just pay poorly in Canada? I see their SF ranges are all around USD 320K+ for the
- link Coinbase New Grad Lowball Edit: yes, this isn't a lowball, I'm super fortunate and rich and grateful to get this offer yada yada Hi everyone, Wanted to ask for advice here about Coinbase offer. I recently got an offer from Coinbase new grad for Zone 1 (SF, NYC): Base: 139.5 | Bonus: 7 | Stock: 50 Total TC: ~197 The re
- Lowballed 😔 I am currently getting paid peanuts compared to my colleagues who do less than me - both in breadth of the program and quality of it. I realized that I’ve added more things to my plate just based on the sweet talks of my manager but don’t think I’ll get promoted anytime soon. All I’m doing now is h
- Lowball or OK? This is my 1st job in US. I have 5 yrs of work ex in my country as sys admin. I initially received an offer from Datastax for Tech support engineer 100k base, 10% bonus and 7.5k stocks for 4years. I negotiated for 140k base and recruiter asked me to meet in the middle and I came down to 120k finall
- Google India Lowballed Got L3 Offer from google ads team Base : 18L performance bonus : 2.7L Relocation: 1.5L stocks: 36k usd for 4 year ( 33%, 33%, 22%, 12%) Yoe : 2 year Tc : 24L Give me some tips for negotiation
- Google lowballed I am an sde-2 at Flipkart My current tc is 24base + 5L esops Have received offer from Google with 22base + 10L RSUs as Sde1. Currently there was a market correction at my company and I got 15% increment, which makes my current base to 28L. There's still 15days to join Google, I don't have any other
- How do I avoid getting lowballed? I have an offer from Google. But my recruiter is saying that if I get a sign on bonus, then I'll have to reduce my base or stock. How do I talk to the recruiter and ask her to give me the joining bonus (which I've seen is about $15k-$20k) without reducing base or stock? #tech #recruiter #salaryneg
- Microsoft lowball I have a verbal offer from Microsoft for L62 SDE. The offer doesn't seem very impressive. They offered TC 214k for Redmond region. What if I reject this offer? 1. Will I have to interview again in the next few months for positions in intrested in Microsoft? 2. What are the chances that other hiri
- Facebook lowballs? Curious if anybody else has gotten lowballed by FB? This happened to me and also to a colleague of mine (L5 and L6). In both cases, FB wouldn't even try to match our current comp so we just declined our offers and stayed at Google. The interview was super low stress and easy so it's not a big time
- Google SWE L3 offer lowball 142k base 100k stock 15% bonus Location : Sunnyvale, CA year 1 : 196k year 2 : 196k year 3 : 185k year 4 : 175k Seems like this a is a standard new grad offer but I have 2 YOE (1 year I was a contractor at a FAANG). I have no competing offers but was told I got SH/H across the board. Would it fea
- Lowball from Google Current TC 500K YoE 15 Offered TC 380K L6 : solutions architect / customer engineer role Is this real? Is Google for real or out of their mind? Couple of rounds of negotiations and this is what they come up with. Told them to blip off.
- Lowball Offer (How to deal with?) This is at a unicorn startup, After the onsite interview, internal recruiter responded the next day scheduling a call going over results 1) Basically, they said I was really close to senior level, but down leveled to mid level. 2) Recruiter also said, you'll be promoted to senior level in no time
- vote google lowball Google lowballing with $340k as final leave it or take it offer. Offered L5, but they said I am borderline L6. Its in bay area. Does internal promotions from L5 to L6 get the same salary as external L6 hires? Yoe 12, L6 at Amz, TC $280k, bay area.
- vote Google still lowballing? 2y ago @google was all over the place here and famous for their lowballing and downlevelling. Still happening on grander scale? #tech #google
- Lowballed This might be a stupid question out of anxiety. How will the team members who interviewed you treat you if you join the same team which lowballed you after an interview ? Is it a good decision to join the same team which lowballed you or try for other better offers ? TC: 🥜
- Google lowball Recently got a Google offer and LinkedIn offer. Yoe 5 years Google lower my level to L3 but recruiter promised to promote soon. Linkedin offer a total 290k TC senior SWE Now Google recruiter wants written proof of LinkedIn offer to try to match but she said maybe only 90%. The base can not go hi
- Lowball Microsoft offer I got the offer from the 5/11 hiring event and was notified by HR on 5/17. Later I had a talk with HM on 5/18. HM approved me working from Bay area REMOTELY and he mentioned that the compensation will be scaled based on the location. It took the HR a whole week to get the offer approved. And I fina
- Microsoft lowball Received Microsoft L61 offer, less than my Amazon L5 TC. Recruiter not willing to budge. L5 TC 230 L61 offer TC 210 What's wrong with Microsoft? #tech #microsoft #Google #aws #Amazon
- Apple lowball? Apple made an offer to me the other day. Base $200k Sign on: $35k RSUs: $370 over 4 years Apparently, this is an M2 offer. I am an L6 SDM at Amazon and make 15% more right now...
- 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
- link Why Google lowballs Guess Google has decided to become the IBM 2.0. No raises and amazing wlb. https://apple.news/A6H4MroqDTda8RME2RyLdjQ
- Massive lowball for Meta RS IC5 Passed the onsite loop and got calibrated at IC5 for a Research Scientist position at Meta. Told the recruiter that I expect at least 350k at SF, and he said 295k TC is the max they can do. What the hell? Yoe : PhD + 2.5 TC- 290k (2022), 330k (2023) #tech #meta
- Google lowballing Hi all, I'm getting an offer from Google, India for Software developer at L3 level. Compensation offered: Base: 19L (INR) Annual bonus: 15% (2.85L) Sign-on bonus: 3.5L (INR) Stocks: 40000 USD spread over 4 years - (7.25/year in INR) other benefits like PF, gratuity on top of this. Overall CTC come
- Lowballed on Microsoft offer Got a verbal offer. Recruiter asked what I was looking for. Highest tc on levels was 180k and that’s the number I gave. He came back with the details. 97k base 10k sign on 70k over 4 years rsu Tc first year 124 114k each year after Obviously nothing close to 180k since I got lowballed. Would p
- Lowball?? Lyft offer: $210k base, no yearly cash bonus $700k stock vests over 4 years $40k sign on Current comp around 250 but all cash. L5 swe offer. Edit 2: 8 years experience after a PhD from a state school. Edit 3: Thanks all for comments. I felt that it could be improved and asked for a slightly imp
- Lowball RSU Some companies like Amazon offer a great stock grant (250k USD over 4 years) at SDE2 And then there is Walmart. Offered me $5500 vesting over 4 years at L72. And this is in Bentonville. Anybody else offered such low RSUs as a part of "talent retention" ? (and before you say $5500 is for entry lev
- vote Tiktok lowball offer Recently get a 3-1 tiktok offer, TC only 495K (190 per share). And have Pinterest(L5, 520k) and Snap(L5, 560k) offers in hand, which one is best? YOE almost 6 years
- “Lowball” For some reason this term seems crazy popular on this app... And I find it really annoying. Is it one of those Indian things/phrases? Edit: I should clarify. I know what it means and I have heard it here and there from non-Indians but it is being used excessively here in a repetitive manner.