I have been living in LCOL since graduation (2 years ago) and have been content with my life since most people here have lower TC than mine and the work I do is interesting.
In the past few months, my company has been going downhill and our competitors have been progressing much faster than us. Due to this, more than half of my team left and I was feeling depressed knowing I am one of the last few people in the sinking ship.
Most of my friends are in non-tech, and since I am living in a remote LCOL area, it's difficult to find ambitious young people with similar interests who can motivate me to pursue a higher TC or a better job/lifestyle.
Reading Blind posts motivated me to get out of my comfort zone, prepare for interviews and aim higher than I ever imagined was possible. I started responding to all the LinkedIn messages from recruiters and got interviews scheduled at Google, Microsoft and some other companies. I went through all previous Google interview related posts on Blind and prepared accordingly. Last week, I got an offer to join Google NYC as L4 SWE (ML) with a 150% increase in my TC.
Thank you Blind community for the motivation!! I am here to give back to the community and answer any questions.
Old TC: $125K
New TC: $320K
YOE: < 2
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Congrats!!!
This time, I did between 50-100 leetcode questions. I prepared for about a month (15 hours on average every week). I struggled in one of my interviews but I kept a positive attitude throughout and kept smiling even though I was struggling. Google will assess your technical and behavioral abilities equally.
I've currently matched with a team and negotiating at L4 level. Did you have to negotiate or was this their initial offer?
$180K base
$250 stocks (33, 33, 22, 12)
15% bonus (27K)
$30K sign on
maybe the offer is on higher end because my work involves ML ( the title is still SWE, but I will be doing MLE work)