Would I be able to negotiate this L5 offer w/ no competing offers? Current TC: $250k YoE 8 yes Base: $165k Bonus :15% Equity: $350k Sign on : $10k I was hoping more for something like this Base : $185k Equity: $450k This is in a MCOL area
Can you please share your interview experience? What was it like?
Did really well on the interviews
^ Bruh , that's why you got the offer. You could give us things like how each round was, was it from leetcode etc...
How much exp ? And role ? Your expectation is little less than typical SE L5
8 years and Networking
Have some competitive offer, even if don’t then make it. Recruiter most probably won’t ask for offer letter but in case they ask tell you are not willing to share. You can negotiate but google can always say no
This is eerily similar to an L4 offer I got about a year ago. I’d push for more. But they do pretty much require competing offers to get more
Yeah my L4 offer I just got for Seattle is basically this
Seattle is HCOL though. But yes the offer seems low regardless
Why don’t you try and let us know?
Google didn't negotiate much for me without a competing offer. But I joined in 2019 and my pay has almost doubled since then, so I'm still glad I did it!
How?
I'm guessing stock vests have climbed significantly in value? Looking at the historic values, $GOOG was at $55 in 2019 (adjusted after split) and is at $125 now, a 127% increase in value.
Like others are saying, this is literally an L4 offer. A pretty good L4 offer. But even for mcol it should be 350k for L5 like your expected numbers
This is L5 offer. I got a similar offer last year for L5
My L4 base was 185k. You can at least get more base. Equity was lower but my TC ended up being 300k for the first year.
My L5 base is $192k, since when is L4 185k?
I’m in the Bay Area. Maybe that makes a difference
Stocks look okay but the base could’ve gone higher. Google won’t move the needle if you don’t have competing offers from companies that are at Google level
Is it SWE offer?
What’s the TC per year? Sorry I can’t tell the equity is over how many years
About $275k TC
Are you in HW?