Tech IndustryJun 25, 2020

Google L5 Offer

What do you think of this offer for a L5 research scientist (SRS) in AI/ML? Base: 205K Bonus: 15% RSUs: 850K Sign-on: 100K TC: 548K first year, and 448K after. 6 YoE after PhD. Research area: computer vision, machine learning, deep learning. #offer Generally, I kind of know it is a strong offer, just wanted to confirm and see more insight as there is very little data in blind for research scientist ladder

Google Gandhiji Jun 25, 2020

Good.

Bloomberg fnag Jun 25, 2020

Very high l5. Great job

Facebook ftw12 Jun 25, 2020

Wow is this without negotiating? Seems really high! Congrats! Also does anyone know if this is a research scientist specific range or applicable to swe as well?

NVIDIA zaj OP Jun 25, 2020

Thanks and great question!

Xilinx ssp7 Jun 25, 2020

This is like L6 offer! Congratulations!

Kohl’s KIC-voi Jun 25, 2020

Is this initial offer or final one with a competing offer? Great job.

NVIDIA zaj OP Jun 25, 2020

initial, but have told a competing offer before making this

Amazon fightclu6 May 2, 2021

What was the competing offer TC? Did you have to provide any evidence of it?

Google colinhuang Jun 25, 2020

Best I've seen for l5 research.

Facebook MPtC71 Jun 25, 2020

Many L6 SWE get lower than this. Except for 20% target bonus. Your TC may be very close to the median TC for L6 SWE at Google.

NVIDIA zaj OP Jun 25, 2020

thanks!

Google taho Jun 25, 2020

+1, sounds more like an L6 offer. Congrats! And, welcome to Google :-) Curious, what was your TC at NVIDIA? Is your 6 yoe all at NVIDIA?

Oracle g00db0y Jun 25, 2020

What does a research scientist do?

Google llbrh Jun 25, 2020

Wow that's some TC!

Amazon vhfcxdf Jun 25, 2020

Wow wow wow 🤩 super offer