Recruiter told me they are going to offer $233k On Target Earnings, $255k in total stocks (33% front loaded, so ~$84k in the first year), and $24k sign-on bonus. The first year total comp will be ~$341k. This is for a L5 customer engineer (infrastructure modernization) role in Sunnyvale for Select/Strategic accounts. Is this a decent offer? Or is there more room to go for? How much more can I go for? Thanks! Updated offer: Base: $163k (remains the same) On-target Commission: $70k (remains the same) Stocks: $350k (up from $255k) First year stocks vest: $116k (33% front-loaded vest) Sign-up bonus: $35k (up from $24k) First year Total Comp: $383k Current company: AWS Current role: Solutions Architect YOE: 7 Current TC: $240k #gcp #customerengineer
233k OTE, but what is base though?
$163k, $70k commission on 100% quota.
Nice that's impressive
Try Microsoft for a competing offer
Do have a Microsoft offer too. But doesn't seem like the total comp is competitive enough compared to GCP.
What was interview like if you don’t mind me asking?
1st round: RRK and GCA. RRK is pretty easy if you already have some knowledge on the cloud and depending on your area of specialization that you're applying too. For me, it was Infrastructure Modernization. Something that I'm pretty familiar with. For GCA, it can be challenging if you haven't seen any sample GCA interview. They look for clarification, framework, solution and prioritization. Jeff H Sipe videos on Youtube helped me a lot. 2nd round: Once you passed those two above, then it's presentation and Googleyness/Leadership. Presentation is about presenting the value prop of your solution to the business and technical leaders. The solution is secondary. Don't recommend getting too complex and spending too much time with the solution. Googleyness/Leadership is pretty much standard behavioral questions like Amazon's Leadership Principles plus some open-ended questions. Team matching: once you're done, then you go to team matching round. I talked to two different teams. Treat them just like interviews. Offer stage: Both teams wanted to move forward. I told the recruiter which team I'm interested in. Recruiter asked how much I'm looking for. You can anchor high here now. Everything is almost two months, FYI. And I had to speed it up a little.
Thanks for sharing about the process. I’m studying rrk now and am worried about system design type questions and getting nervous.
You can always try and push on the equity component. But this is actually a very strong offer. Congrats!
Thanks. Definitely!
Do you mind sharing what concepts were covered in the interview ? RRK ? coding ? LC ?
Check out the question from another person above/below. No coding. Not sure what's LC.
That’s a great offer for L5 from the numbers i have seen over the last year. But if that was the first number they gave you, then you should definitely ask more. If you don’t mind, what’s your level at AWS as SA ?
Yup, asked for more equity on the spot. Before the call on the numbers, the recruiter asked what's my expectation during the verbal offer call. I said $385k. L5 SA at AWS. Which is more like L4 at GCP afaik.
Ok good call. CSA at microsoft can beat this for L64/65 in bay area from numbers on blind. But the problem is getting a interview call from microsoft. My experience has been that no matter one tries direct application or employee referral or even contacting linked in recruiters, the application gets blackholed. I wonder who has cracked the art of getting interview call from ms. Re:gcp they are standing on thin ice wrt market share irrespective of some good results lately and i have seen some bad WLB bad management posts at gcp ce org just be aware of it and do your own research.
Congratulations!!
You crushed it! Did you use a counter offer to push this hard?
My MSFT offer isn't that much. So I didn't really tell the Google recruiter how much the offer from MSFT was. I just mentioned I had the MSFT offer and my expectation was $385k. Set the anchor high when they are ready to give you the offer. I think $400k might even be a possibility too.
How does on target bonus work?
Let say the on target commission is $70k. If you/your team hits 100% of the assigned quota, then you get the full $70k. If you go under, it's pro-rated. If you go over, there's a multiplier like 2X. Meaning 200% of quota gets you $70k + $140k = $210k of commission.
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Nice. Disnt know solution consultant get paid this much
This is for a customer engineer role. I'd think a consultant role falls under the professional services organization.