Staff eng at LinkedIn, current TC of 560k (220k base, 15% bonus, rest from RSU). YoE approx 15. Google L6 offer first year TC of 544k (220k base, 20% bonus, 55k sign on, 900k RSU). After several back and forth, I'm told this is a "final offer". There is no more room to negotiate. I know this is quite a competitive offer, but it's still lower than my current TC at LinkedIn, not even accounting the fact that LinkedIn has ESPP and slightly better health plan. Google is where I want to be (for various reasons I prefer to not go into), but this puts me in a difficult situation of taking a pay cut. What do folks think? Does Google refresher generally make up for this difference in a year or two? Edit: since I'm receiving several questions about interview & preparation, I'm copying one of the replies from below. "on-site was 2 coding, 2 system design, 1 behavioral, 1 to discuss my current project. Totally 6 interviews plus lunch). Preparation was quite intensive.. I consider my self a good "practical" programmer, but not necessarily good in interview format with the time pressure. I put about 6 months of effort to leetcode about 150 medium and 50 hard questions. I didn't put much effort on design as I don't think there is much I can prepare outside of my domain know how.. I generally enjoy doing design and doesn't feel like an interview when doing that. I wish there were more design interviews and fewer coding! For coding, I actually think I got mostly LC medium questions only, didn't think any were close to the "hard" LC I practiced. Got several coding questions on Graph traversal, DP, trees and Arrays. There was a definite emphasis on writing efficient code in timely manner."
lol. 16k less 😆😆😆
Why are you even thinking about 15k difference? Google has a better brand and you will likely learn and build lot more cooler stuff. Just bite the bullet already.
Thanks. 16k, plus espp (around 5k easily), plus better health benefits, and Perkup ($2k towards child care). All this adds up to a decent difference.. but the brand and team I'll be working in are definitely the big draw.
All that is just 4% less than your current compensation. Google's stock appreciation itself would take care of it in no time.
It's not really that much lower. If you like the new job at google, I think it's taking a small pay cut is not a big deal. Also is LinkedIn likely to say at level for several years, or is it just that high because of MSFT acquisition?
Promotions at LinkedIn at my level is not very easy. I expect it'll take at least 1.5 years, possibly more to get to Sr Staff.
Sr Staff at LinkedIn is about T7 at google? Yeah it's super hard for promotions at that level for any company. My two cent: your monthly take home pay after tax goes from 30k at LinkedIn to 29.4k at google. For that small of a difference in comp, preference is much more important. Though as a disclaimer, i just sign offer for 330k from fb, so both those numbers look huge to me 🙂, so maybe my advice is biased.
If your heart is at Google, then 15k is a small, small, small price to pay. After taxes that comes to about 8-9k/year. I'll say go for it. I have taken pay cut before for a job I really wanted and never had a regret. It not like it'll change your standard of living :-) Listen to your heart.
Thanks, that's useful😊
Refreshers will put you far past that after your first year, assuming you can perform at that level. (Based on a number of data points from friends working there)
Go for it!
I could be delusional, but 544k and 560k don’t sound anything I would be concerned about (with some stock growth the situation could change easily). Rather, the company, the prospect of the work and the long term growth that I believe I can gain is whats more important. And given that Google is where you want to be, I would just join it if I were you without that much of a thought.
Thanks
Humblebrag post.
Bragging on an anonymous platform doesn't get me much😂
Come on, you know the answer to your question at your level. Also a LinkedIn staff friend of mine recently joined as L5, so you are getting a level bump too. Seriously though, if I'm being paid that much as an IC, I'd be more worried about keeping up with current Google L6 guys and the value i would bring
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Good offer. What is your area of expertise?
Distributed systems. Joining GCP in similar area.
Is infrastructure interviews similar to SWE at Google? What was the pattern of interview at the Staff level (coding vs design). Thanks for answering.