Hello, I currently work at a startup and I make $400k in straight up cash a year (no RSUs etc ). My startup is doing really well and on track to get to $100M in revenue in the next 2 years. I chat with the CTO/COO/CEO on a regular basis and everyone knows each other fairly well. I run a team of around 20 and I like the culture and the team I built up. The work i do is interesting as well. For the heck of it - i decided to interview at Google and i did my best to prepare which meant long hours and burning the midnight oil. I had a 3 round interview and the first two went really well. The moment the last guy came on - i knew he was in no mood to tolerate me and the interview was a disaster. Sure enough - feedback from the Recruiter is that i killed the first two and i didnât do well on the last one which means they want me to reinterview. Now Iâm thinking - geez this is some beauracratic shit - I mean if i want to hire someone for my team - I just say i want to hire and it doesnt go through any sort of committee. I also came across this quote and it resonated with me: âWe tend to massively underestimate the compounding returns of intelligence. As humans, we need to solve big problems. If you graduate Stanford at 22 and Google recruits you, youâll work a 9-to-5. Itâs probably more like an 11-to-3 in terms of hard work. Theyâll pay well. Itâs relaxing. But what they are actually doing is paying you to accept a much lower intellectual growth rate. When you recognize that intelligence is compounding, the cost of that missing long-term compounding is enormous. Theyâre not giving you the best opportunity of your life. Then a scary thing can happen: You might realize one day that youâve lost your competitive edge. You wonât be the best anymore. You wonât be able to fall in love with new stuff. Things are cushy where you are. You get complacent and stall. So, run your prospective engineering hires through that narrative. Then show them the alternative: working at your startup.â So anyway long story short - they want me to interview again sometime next year and Iâm debating on whether to go back since i want to enjoy my Xmas break in peace and donât want to have to worry about reinterviewing. /end-rant Thoughts/Comments welcome.
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No that was my employer many many moons ago
Who wrote that quote lol. âYou wonât be the best anymoreâ - unless you already are the best, youâre not gonna just become the best any time soon (or even in this lifetime). Misleading sentence. âThings are cushy where you areâ- this is a positive sentence âYou wonât be able to fall in love with new stuffâ - makes no sense âYou get complacent and stallâ - Incomplete sentence. Complacency and stalling are terrible things! But complete the sentence, what are you getting complacent with, and what are you stalling? Are you complacent with a comfortable and lucrative 9-5 life and stalling the hustle life of a 20 hour workday? That sounds like a win imo. Idk man you do you.. but sometimes people write quotes like these without really processing what they are saying. Sounds cool at first read but itâs garbage upon dissection.
Since when does Google need only 3 need interviews.
Don't bother imo, your quote is pretty accurate
Your startup can be IPOed in 2 years, you can retire ,then why go to Google.
They didnât say they get no RSUs.
They did say no RSUs
Yoe?
What level? I had 3 extra interviews on phone nbd
Why not? You might as well interview. If you get an offer it's good for a year so you can take your time making a decision. An interview costs you some time to prep, and a day off work, but overall it's not that much of a burden. As your career growth, I disagree with that statement. If you are hungry Google has a lot of things that need to be done where you can impact a lot. It will almost assuredly require a bit more bureaucracy to make big changes, bit that's in the nature of a large global user base. At Google you have a lot of opportunities, even if many people dont take full advantage.
Get the offer as leverage for negotiating rsu at your start up then stay put until IPO
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Your job sounds more fun than working at Google at any M level