Google L6 and likely get L7 promotion in the next 2 cycles. TC this year is about ~650 A well known Hedge Fund offered me 750. Will you take the offer? I’m leaning toward rejecting the offer. What TC will you leave Google for? Assumming good WLB at hedge fund 40-45 hrs/week and the work is interesting. Lets face it Google has its short comings, but overall still a pretty good place to work. A slight bump is not enough to make me move. Update: they up the offer to $820, and I’m taking it.
As long as it’s not citadel why not
What’s being an L6 at G like? Must be nice.
Depending on the team, L6 at one team can be very different from another L6 at another team. I get to on open-ended problems with a lot of ambiguities and I like it. The only thing I don't like is too much doc writing and almost zero coding.
Thanks for the reply. Do you mind me asking what level you started out at at Google? I heard about the intense doc culture over there. I guess it makes sense that the higher up one goes, the less coding one would probably be required of and spend more time on the design/architectural side. Do you know if the other company will give you the creative/technical freedom you are looking for? I hope that makes sense.
Financial institutions are not worth it!
I used to work at one. I might be lucky but it wasn't bad at all, just different.
I think your per hour rate is higher at google compared to hedge fund (due to wlb). If you find the domain interesting, then it make sense. Else, I’d wait for a higher number for the move to make sense.
That's probably true. But it depends on how you count your working hours. I'll be walking my dog in the evening and thinking about the problem at work, does it count as working? I'm in the office 3 days a week, but I'm always thinking about work problems during off hours.
Even in this market, Snap L7 can get you 850k+. As do other companies like Meta, Netflix.
Why jump to a worse WLB place for < 20% increase? Stay at Google or interview at some other t1 tech company where they will beat the 750k offer
Could you go and come back if things don't work out, let's say within a year
That’s Amazing. How old are you if I may ask?
Wow
Hedge fund might open a whole new world of even higher TC opportunities than G could provide.