Got an offer from Google for the position of a Cloud Consultant.
Currently a Customer Engineer at Microsoft (Azure).
Current level: L63
TC: $240k
New level at Google: L5
New TC : $300k
The TC bump is great, and so is the level change. I joined at a lower level without looking into it more closely.
Like my boss, hate the scope of the work I do. Extremely boring.
These locations are all in a medium cost of living area.
The real disadvantages with GCP:
1. It’s third in a two-horse race. GCP barely has any big name customers.
2. The culture may be cut-throat like at Amazon. (I have Amazon experience and never want to work there again).
My plan is absolutely to boomerang to Microsoft at a much higher level, because my attempts to move internally have been leading nowhere.
Given these problems, would it be a bad idea to accept the GCP offer? Even with the TC bump?
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Serious question.
The pay is still better at MS, but the scope of the work is so painfully tedious at L63, after having been L6 at AWS.
Team at AWS was getting incredibly toxic. My current manager/team are awesome but the role is just painfully boring, tedious and small.
BTW many F500 operate(d) their own (on-prem) datacenters and are at least partially if not entirely on some cloud. What %age of those does GCP count as a paying customer? There are public studies/speculations on this as well.