Google L6 AI/ML Customer Engineer Low Ball Offer
Hi, I recently got offer with GCP Customer engineer role for L6 AI/ML Speciality. It was a low ball offer ~ 390K TC. YOE 17 HCOL Seattle. What is a good total TC that we can target for this? This CE role will deal with science families customers day to day especially for AI/ML workloads and nothing less than a data scientist/applied scientist. So my target expectation would be less than 10-15% of the actual science family roles from total TC. would love get your thoughts on this. Offer: TC 390K (173K base, 30k sign on bonus, ~ 250K stocks for 4 years, 42.6% yearly bonus) #GCP #Customer Engineer #Google #Compensation #datascience #AI/ML
WTF is a customer engineer? LMFAO.
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173+74+30+62.5...doesnt add up to 390🤔
TC seems quite low for L6 role based in SEA. Would expect the base to be 200+ . Bonus % seems quite high (is it a sales plan ?) That would be what may be driving this , which can lead to accelerators on the earnings
Yeah CEs are on sales plan, with target bonus of 42%
What’s your YOE? 17?
What are sciences families customers? :)
Sounds like “science families” refers to roles like data scientist, research scientist (whatever they’re called at Google), and customers are the GCP customers of these teams?
As a previous CE based on Seattle and also L6, this is pretty standard pay band for the role...
You might be able to negotiate a bit, but this amount isn't remarkably low. The pay band for CEs is the same no matter your specialty, so just because you're specialized in AI/ML doesn't mean your pay will be influenced by data science roles.
What’s your new role after CE? And how do you like it?
That 42.6% isn’t yearly bonus. Yearly bonus and pay raise is different and is performance and rating based. This is sales bonus paid out quarterly, maxing upto 42.6% for a year.
That's the target. It can easily go above 42.6%
If it goes above 42.6% you can make a LOT of money because there’s a multiplier after 100% of quota attainment. It all depends on the book of business
Can you share your interview experience? And how you got prepared
Low-Fair CE comp. You can’t just make up positions and pay bands for yourself.
What app is that, is the levels.fyi or blind?
Blind actually. It has really good compensation data. You can see what everybody’s been entering for each company/role/location