Can I negotiate Google offer with potential promo?
Jul 6, 2021
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Despite knowing Google's tendency to lowball, I didn't prepare a competing offer — As expected, I was lowballed. Is it possible to successfully negotiate the offer with a potential promo at Amazon? From the start of my interview, I did let my recruiter know that a promo was in the works, so I'm certain that she won't assume I'm pulling a desperate attempt out of my ass. Unfortunately, I don't have any tangible doc to support this apart from internal conversations with my manager & L7.
TC: 185k
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Many companies aren't total asses about it, but Google is. I've never tried to simply say "I don't have a competing offer but here's my current TC and I'm not moving unless you hit $x." My intuition is that most companies are ok with this but Google will be annoying about it.
Also unfortunately, the recruiter probably knows how amazon paybands work, and he/she probably knows that after your promo you will get placed into the absolute bottom band which is almost a meaningless bump. I'm no longer at amazon but I don't think anyone has EVER been happy with their post promo tc bump.
I would try either 1. standing your ground. I have seen a 250k l3 offer with ~50k signon, so that is probably around as high as it can go. Just tell the recruiter you want $x, make sure it's within the band, and leave it at that 2. "fake" an offer letter and say that the other company is not letting you share it. You can say that you want to pause on the offer since you are in the process with FB (which should kick some life into them, they know they have to give you an actual comp package then)