Good news: I passed HC with Google, now recruiter is finding me a team to match with as an L3. This is my first Big Tech™ experience, so I'm still in disbelief that I've made it this far.
Bad news: The recruiter asked me for an idea of what TC I'm looking for so there's something to give to the Powers That Be when they create an offer. Since this is new territory for me, I do not know what to say.
I've got ~10 years of experience, but nothing near the scale of Google (small/medium businesses + programmer for the military). I don't want to undervalue myself, but I don't want to sound pompous either. Also, I'm getting matched for a remote position and live in a relatively low-COL area (not near any Google offices), so I can't just use the numbers from Blind/Levels.fyi because those are heavily slanted towards high-COL offers.
Any suggestions for what I can say? Is there some formula I could use to adjust the numbers I see here and elsewhere to compensate for the difference in location? Would I have better luck if I weighted things more towards stock vs base pay? I imagine any offer from Google will beat what I'm currently getting at my Small Tech™ company, but obviously I'd like to maximize what I get.
Current TC: 130K, all base pay, no stock grants and bonuses are almost non-existent
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I'd heard time and again that there was a lot of luck involved in the process. This was yet another lucky break, I've heard other people take a long time to match.
I think I just got REALLY lucky. None of the questions from the interviewers were particularly hard, nothing at all on the level of the Foobar questions. Plus in the pre- and post-interview chats I found I had things in common with most of the interviewers and we clicked really well, so that probably improved their opinion of my performance.
If you get far enough it gives you the option to have a recruiter contact you. I didn't think anything would come of it, but it bypassed the initial phone interview for me. Still had to do Google's gauntlet of 5 interviews in a day, but 5 is better than 6, right? 😅