L4 at Google for couple of yrs and have an offer for Senior SWE (IC3) from Snowflake. Questions: 1) For folks who have moved from Google to Snowflake, how do you like it there? 2) How is the WLB, work culture and morale? 3) Should I just wait till promo at Google before switching? 4) Benefits at Snowflake might not be very good. Does the TC bump make up for it and is there a 1 yr cliff for stocks now? Tax: Current TC: 300K Snowflake TC: 450K #tech #Google #Snowflake
Take the TC. Are you getting $150k/year worth of benefits?
Honestly if you couldn't make it last L4 at Google for multiple years that's a red flag.
Take it
I would take the Snowflake offer - the TC diff is substantial and promos at Google are pretty tough due to increasing competition and diminishing returns on impact. You can always boomerang back to Google at a higher level - it has been done by many - I've even seen a +2 boomerang in 3 years - there is almost no way to get two promos at Google in that period these days.
Be aware of the quarterly performance evaluations as well as relatively high expectations
Agree on the unnecessary pressure coming in from quarterly reviews which will soon burn you out. Also the culture is quite toxic.
I agree to this. These quarterly performance evaluations makes it extremely hard to have a period of couple of not so productive weeks and you are always searching for next impact
Performance is a big deal at Snowflake, if you are a top performer I wouldn't worry about it all.
This person doesn’t seems to be high performer. He is SDE 2 getting up level. Idk think this will gel well with his future colleagues at SNOW unless op is prodigy
Don’t do it. Extra pay is not worth it. There are some recent posts about snowflake work culture. https://www.teamblind.com/us/s/8OZfuOb2
Culture is really bad. Lots of teams are not doing well because leadership is not giving direction and the direction they are giving is not producing the results. Because we have quarterly reviews, an emphasis on forming “good relationships” with management is higher than ever right now. Snowflake is somewhere the kiss ups, brownnosers and former teacher’s pets absolutely thrive regardless of how they’re tracking toward their deliverables. Also, we don’t have a PIP process, so the aforementioned managers can simply fire whoever they want whenever they want. This isn’t really a problem in theory but in practice the minority of terrible managers with terrible personalities can turnover their entire team if they’d like and no one does anything, it’s the snowflake way
Being a manager I feel I need to straight this up. We do have both PDP and PIP processes. Nobody is fired after one quarter of underperforming. The pressure on the performance exists though and if PIP is not going in the right direction (no signs of improvements) there is a likely termination. From my experience people are always surprised by being let go even if they have multiple written feedbacks and plans they agreed to.
So glad we have a manager here to clear up my comment. Snowflake is also very management-heavy.
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