Google Performance Reviews

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dijkstra19
Aug 15, 2019 9 Comments

I will be joining Google shortly. Got down-leveled to L3, it is what it is, I'm just happy I matched to a team and looking forward to starting. I want to gun for L5, hoping to shoot for L4 in 12-18mo, L5 in I suppose 2-3 years after that, we'll see. That's at least the goal.

1) From reading various posts, sounds like the challenge to a good performance review is being able to a) deliver a product that has b) impact. And this is dependent on your manager (and team) giving you such projects. Is this still the primary source of your performance review? How do other politics come into play in the 360 reviews?

2) How hard is it to succeed in performance reviews? I get that the levels are NI, CME, EE, SEE, and S. How challenging is it to achieve each one? Is that solely dependent on #1, your ability to deploy products that have impact? What about WLB? I'm not looking for WLB, any thoughts on hours/week necessary to achieve each grade?

So I don't get shit for it later:
Old TC: 150
New TC: 195 (I know, low for L3 according to you folks, don't really care)

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