[India] Google L4 vs MS L63 at 10 YOE

Amazon
al@d!n

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al@d!n
Mar 31, 2021 118 Comments

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

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  • Amazon / Product
    TsuNaMo

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    TsuNaMo
    Google is massively lowballing here. Walk away from G offer and see if they negotiate further. Only reason for choosing Google would be good refreshers down the line but looking at their offer I can think of only this "Gazab beizzati hai"
    Mar 31, 2021 1
    • S/He is sde2 in Amazon at 10 yoe and Google L4 offer is top of the band. I know at 10 yoe it should have been L5, but you get offer for your abilities, not for your yoe.
      Mar 31, 2021
  • Microsoft reshresher's are peanut. Work in india is like support engineer. Mostly maintanence projects.
    IMO try some other company.
    Mar 31, 2021 19
  • Uber
    boxo

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    boxo
    Can you also share potential teams which you are going to join, and in future are you looking for more design work or coding work ?
    Mar 31, 2021 9
    • Google
      sourtomato

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      sourtomato
      Gpay is bad in general. Unless you are a google fanboy and would really like that google name on your resume I would advice to not join gpay. I Cant disclose much but I was at a fairly senior level there, had first hand experience shielding the team from the surrounding crap and can reliably say platform is worst org in gpay followed by consumer and then merchant. Feel free to DM me. If you give me the name of hiring manager I can give you more details as well.
      Mar 31, 2021
    • @sourtomato did you switch teams in G or left G?
      Jun 21, 2021
  • Google / Eng
    elaichi

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    elaichi
    Go for Microsoft. With your YOE, it will be incredibly frustrating to be an L4 at Google and then deal with the entire perf game.

    Level matters, because it decides the work you'll do and the kind of future opportunities you'll have.

    Google India is filled with L4s at the moment, which means there will be a lot of competition for L5 promo. Try again for an L5 maybe a year later.
    Mar 31, 2021 0
  • You can try joining Google again in 1 year at L5, no harm there. In the meantime enjoy your 42 LPA salary at Microsoft. If you join Google now at L4, you will get stuck at L4 level for 2 years minimum. Joining at L4 seems like a career step back as well as monetary loss.
    Mar 31, 2021 0