- Reflecting on the Page/Brin age Google used to have a cool innovative culture. Now it's known for firing people who speak out. No more TGIF, food is meh, lots of people getting shitty TCs. iOS still way better than Android. Oculus is doing way better than DayDream. AWS and Azure doing way better than GCP. Larry and Sergey had a
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- link Facebook IC5/IC6 offer I got offer from Facebook (Oculus) for product design role based in Redmond. Currently working at Apple and have 8 years of work experience with PhD. I have been offered IC5 level, trying to negotiate to get IC6. Do I qualify for IC6? What to expect for compensation at IC5 and IC6? edit: My interv
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and industry lounge. - Should I accept this offer? I was just recently offered a position of Software Engineer with the Yahoo Mail team doing Android development in Kotlin in Sunnyvale, CA. And I’m slated to start in early January. Today is actually the last day for me to accept it as I was given the official offer two days ago and they said it expi
- link Google Hardware Salary Range About to get L4 offer next week. Compensation is being worked out. This is Digital Design role and I have about 9 years experience. Currently make about 165K TC I read a blind thread about Google salaries in general and it looks like the numbers are all SW related jobs. There is a distribution list
- Oculus Research MPK Considering an offer from Facebook, current comp @AAPL ICT4 7 years work ex, 175k base 20k bonus and total unvested RSU 374k (3/4 pipeline full) New Offer E5 , 180k base 40k joining bonus, 15k housing bonus, 320k RSU I am trying hard to get the RSU up, does this seem fair and what max can I expect
- Options moving forward Currently talking to 4 places: TuneIn, Sr/Staff SWE. Applied for Staff but I think they probably expect considerably more YoE based on first phone call (non-technical). Tech call scheduled soon. Numbers quoted put TC at ~180-190 (with potential to go higher if I blow them out of the water and
- Choosing Google vs. Oculus tl;dr Interviewed at both Google consumer hardware and Oculus/FB for HW Design (RTL) role. Waiting on HC on both. Want insight about long term career prospects. Long version: I am waiting on HC decision on both companies for RTL Design role. Don’t know comp numbers yet and will share once I do. Oc