I’m preparing to negotiate a new location with my recruiter. Obviously mtv has the most opportunity, but can somebody from Google comment on the teams that are in Austin/Boulder/Pittsburgh? Do they have a large engineering presence? What projects are they working on in these locations? 2 YOE TC 90k
The top Google teams are in bay area, Seattle, and NYC. You should be going to one of those locations, with Google Seattle being the lowest COL.
What the cons with Google Seattle?
Google's engineering presence in Austin is light, but they are leasing huge amounts of real estate. One would think that some expansion of engineering is part of the plan. https://www.statesman.com/news/20190131/source-google-to-occupy-35-story-office-tower-in-downtown-austin?template=ampart https://www.statesman.com/news/20190219/google-signs-lease-for-yet-another-austin-office-tower https://www.statesman.com/news/20161026/googles-new-downtown-tower-home-reaches-full-height
Any insights on Boulder? I'm very interested in that office
Not from Google but good luck on that Pittsburgh has no headcount 🙃 I have the same YOE and was told that. I interviewed there and the teams there were Cloud, Ads, and Shopping Hopefully Austin/Boulder has more!