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Received an L3 offer for the position of Android developer for Google tv in Bangalore TC: 42LPA ( 23.5lpa base + stocks + joining bonus + performance bonus ) My current base and TC both are much higher than this, should I still join, considering not much learning is happening in my current team, although I have 3 years of experience already, don't have enough confidence in designing applications. The work sounds very interesting at Google, after talking to the HM. Pls give any advise considering my primary goal is knowledge and skills building
Congratulations bro 🎉. I have the 2nd round technical for the same role from 1st of May. Could you please give some advice on how to prepare for it?
They mostly ask from known topics but have a few more layers on top, so need more observations.
could you please share your interview experience. i have upcoming interview for the same role.
Naah, hold out for other teams atleast. The lower comp is a red flag, and besides what makes you think Google TV would work out? The space is already extremely saturated. I'm curious what the HM said to make you think the work would be interesting.
Well she said, that, they are trying to role out a new feature from scratch in Google tv and might have to work on both Android and backend, also the team size is very small (2 L3s, 2 L3s and 1 L6) so ownership would be high. What lured me is, opportunity to work on both frontend and backend on scalable systems, which I always wanted to and couldn't until now.
I'd say learn more about your team. How are the opportunities for growing and reasonable timelines for it. I've seen talented l3s taking a long time to get promoted because of competition in the team and fewer slots for promotion. At this point where you have 3 years of experience and if it's going to take more 2-3 years for promotion. You may find it worse considering you are taking in less TC. About knowledge building, Google works on in-house frameworks and tools, so learning would be mostly helpful internally.
So does that mean knowledge gain would be good enough to compensate for the dip in compensation?
That totally depends on your team. What stack they are using. And how much your manager trusts you for work IMO, if you can hold off for sometime and try for L4. That'll be better.
OP you should have tried for L4, else should try for L4 after 6 months specially you are considering taking paycut. Google is not worth paycut when you have to grind as much as Amazon to get that L4 promotion.
In the meantime you can try for Uber SDE 2, Msft L61, LinkedIn, Salesforce etc all of them can pay higher and have similar culture.
OP, pls don't take fucking L3 offer, they will make you jump hoops to give you a promo to L4 which you might have got with a better interview or with a better negotiation with the recruiter. Google is not a good company now anyway with all the bad culture seaping in. So only consider if they give an L4, else go to other companies
This is it. Paints the exact picture from inside.
How much is the learning curve? Will I gain enough skills?
At 3 YOE shouldn’t you be offered a L4?
Actually I haven't yet completed 3 years, in a few months I will. That's why L3
Atleast try for a diff team, Google tv is not for everyone (it's a very Android niche team).
How much stocks did you get offered over 4 years?
Didn't get an exact amount of all the component yet. Since my current base is higher than what they are offering, they want me to first decide if I want to go ahead with lower base
How was your interview experience? What kind of interviews and topics