He told me that refreshers are given on the first year for exceeded ratings, although it is hard to get exceeded on your first year. Can someone confirm? TC 350k
That means if you join in April 2020, your first refresh is April 2022. That's crap.
It’s January 2022, unless you hit EE or better by fall 2020, in which case it’s Jan 2021. Why would it be crap though? It just changes how you should think about equity granted to you when you start. You have all the information
Just because the information is available upfront does not mean it's a crappy policy.
Yes. But even with that, it's less than normal refresher and is prorated. Mine was 25k for 6 months as L4 with EE
It sounds like Google has given up trying to compete at the top level in compensation. Here you get a full year’s refresher even if you join in September.
I am seeing too many posts about Google low balling and Google going lower in overall TC. Is it just me or is this what is really happening? Why is Google trying to move out of FANG?
They are trying to keep their place in Fang by low balling. Fang originally was a group of tech stocks that performed amazingly in the market I blame the system of which relies on non US nationals desperate to accept any offer without negotiating
But for people like us it's only FANG because of TC. By that definition I feel like N should no longer be a part of it.
So let’s say you accept an L4 offer with initial grant of 200k. And let’s say you also wanna just cruise and only shoot for meets expectations. Does that mean you’ll NEVER get a refresher even if initial grant was low?
One way that Google could become competitive again is for people to stop licking Google’s balls. Putting Google on a pedestal and joining Google at any cost mentality has made Google realize that they could easily lowball people and cut corners, and people would still run toward it. Google ain’t what it once used to be. I’ve been reading countless Blind posts related to Google, and the following seem true: 1. Google lowballs and downgrades levels 2. People go to Google for WLB/name 3. Google and boring work are associated So if you think nowadays you can join Google, and get organic gourmet meals, free everything under the sun, innovative work, top TC, etc., you’re delusional! Those days are long gone. Google is a giant corporation with well established infrastructure (money making machine) that only needs some regular maintenance. Sure there are still some interesting projects, but mostly reserved for top notch engineers. So if name and WLB are important to you, take the lowball offer and join, otherwise stay away.
Yeah the meals these days are more like dorm food than 'gourmet' meals (actually Google literally uses the same vendor for MTV cafes as a lot of universities use for dorm food)
Do you respond negatively to every blind post, or, have I just come across your salty ass posts recently?
Yes I confirm both of those