Google L3 Offer Negotiation
Recently, I received a Google L3 return offer for bay area. Here is the breakdown: 142k base 15% annual bonus (21k) 15k signing bonus RSU: 100k with 33, 33, 22, 12 vesting So the TC for year 1 is 211k. I have a competing offer with a TC of about 350k from an HFT but I would really prefer to join Google. How much can the initial offer increase after negotiation? Any other tips?
5yrs ago i tried same nego with G like you (experienced hire) but didnt work.
Which HFT ? Also, isn't the delta too big ? Most HFTs have just as good of a brand as Google.
Just join hft
You can try for more equity and signing bonus, but you won’t get much. Google will spit on your 350k and tell you to take or leave their offer. They know you want to take it.
Haahhha
It seems a new grad offer, from my experience they don't negotiate much on those
That's what I got for a new grad offer last year. They didn't let me negotiate without a competing offer
And annoyingly they sometimes don’t consider finance as a “competing offer”
HFT WLB will be much worse. But much better tc clearly
not always true for swe. Sometimes swe have great wlb eg two sigma
Lmao... take the HFT offer ASAP. There are hundreds of qualified people like you who would happily take your L3 offer. You have little negotiating leverage as a new grad, especially in this market. Anything above the offer you have is cutting into L4 comp, especially in this market!
Congrats on the Google offer - increase Google offer on stock and sign - congrats as Google will layoff 10k people so the first few months you will need to kick ass but saying this I don’t know HFT. What’s your YOE?
new grad
Why do you say google will layoff 10k?