Have stayed in Google almost 4 yrs. I will have a comp cliff in July this year. I have hesitated to interview other companies or stayed another 1.5 yrs (I guess) for Google T5 title. Status in current team: - Not a TL yet. - Ratings as T4 were: CME, CME, (EE, I expect what I will get this time). ...Read more
TPM (L4 for 3 years including previous ladder) - Changed ladders and promo time was reset; Making 250k tc 15 yoe and good ratings (not a single CME in 3 years) Should I continue to pursue my career at G or look elsewhere? I am confident of doing both TPM and PM work (have MBA from top school)
Been at Google as L4 for almost 3 years and always got a CME rating. I am not expecting any higher rating this perf cycle. Most of my friends got promoted to senior roles in other faang companies. It is frustrating to see my career progression stall after joining Google. Before Google i was leading...Read more
Little under two years and stuck in a dead end role. Joining the role was my mistake. Got a bit greedy for the google name. I tried transferring to either the PA or SWE ladder. SWE ladder I didn’t have a team willing to interview me and got rejected on the PA interview. In my current role I do onl...Read more
I'm an L3 at Google getting CMEs for last 3 cycles. I am getting a couple of L5 offers at companies like {Doordash, Instacart, Uber, Robinhood, Salesforce}. I'm worried I might underperform in the new company as I don't have enough experience in building stuff at that level. Should I take a step b...Read more
I am on short term disability leave for last 3 months. I have my STD leave approved for one more month. I am thinking to resign from my position at the end of this month. Are there any consequences if I resign while I am on STD leave? Is there any chance I might need to return any portion of the pay...Read more
I recently was told by Manager to find another team in Google as they think I don’t fit in the requirement of what the team needs. To some extent she also hinted towards a rating of NI this perf cycle. I got multiple spot bonuses and peer bonuses this cycle and although I lacked tad bit on few visio...Read more
I was at Google for 2.75 years before joining Meta. My tenure there was very mediocre at best. Had joined at L3 and stayed the same forever. Always got CME. It was simply not a good fit, plus manager was more of TL than people manager, so never had any conversations around growth ever. It was my fir...Read more
Looking for some unbiased perf advice since I joined Google 6 months ago and feel that I'm not getting enough read on this perf thing. Is CME just a given in this first cycle? How much exposure one should have to be added as peer reviewer? How many peer reviewers should I target? How to approach th...Read more
Context: Relatively young (in early 30s), have kids, Bay area, got promoted relatively fast within Google from L3 to L6 (~5ys). Like my team, work and scope, see opportunities to myself getting to 7 maybe in the next couple of years. Wanted to ask advice from the blind community and specially from ...Read more
Currently at L5 (7 YoE) and about to become a parent soon. While I’m super excited on the personal front and so looking forward to the baby, I’m also wondering what to do on the career side of things. The parental leave is definitely going to reset things. I’ll go back to being a CME in the current ...Read more
I used to make far less than I do now, in a medium size private company. Almost 3x difference. I was absolutely joyous when I got the offer. After a few years at Google, I don't even know if I am happier now compared to back then. I worked on more interesting projects and owned them close to end ...Read more
Hey Blind community, this is my first post here. I am an Indian who joined Google around 6-7 months back. I love my team and work here. I have always had a dream of living in the States from childhood (I have some family members who live there and cant stop talking about the tech industry there). I ...Read more
I just turned down Google offer(strong hire as per Google recruiter + good team match) by informing the recruiter that I’m scared of the horror stories (slow career trajectory, increasing politics, not beating offers or not giving fair market value without offers etc.), CME recruiter experience and ...Read more
Fairly new to Google and coming up to my year and a half. Hired as an L4 Interaction Designer in a Southern California. Was going for L5 during interview but leveled at L4. Made it a point with my manager since I started that my career goal was to whatever I needed to do to get to L5. I got CME firs...Read more
Context: I'm a SWE. 5yoe. L4. Mostly gotten CMEs. I have less technical knowledge of my team's work and I fall short in many work conversations. For example, I rarely have anything insightful to comment on design docs (algorithm, scalability, alternate ideas, etc). Instead my comments are mostly tr...Read more
Friends idk if I’m psyching myself out but I’m really afraid that once we return to office, I’ll end up depressed again (Pre-pandemic) Working from home has been the best thing to happen to my career and mental health since I graduated from college. Before the pandemic I was struggling work wise (...Read more
Long rant alert ⚠️ Not long after I joined Google last year, my immediate families (including my mother) fell critically ill, and eventually died in extremely traumatic ways (cancer). At the time when this series of events happened, I was a new grad Noogler, and had not been able to build up my cre...Read more
I see more and more TSE-related posts here. As a previous TSE who did the internal transfer to SRE, I want to share my review about TSE org. YOE 4 TC 250K. First, here are some backgrounds about TSE org: About 2 years ago when I joined TSE, at that time, each TSE only took 1-2 cases every day and ...Read more
Blind wont let me post a google sheets link so here it is in raw format. It contains 95% of companies with more than 10 reviews. company ratings career growth wlb compensation culture management overall Formidable 12 4.7 5 4.3 4.9 4.6 4.7 Boston Scientific 38 3.6 4.9 3.5 4.2 3.8 4 Hudl 14 4.4 4.9 ...Read more