Such a silly policy. They're basically formalizing tiers of workers based on location, making peripheral workers a lower tier than HQ based ones. I imagine they will be resistant to transfer any of these workers to one of the HQ locations at a later date. At some point companies will realize the software engineer job market is not local and uncompetitive pay on a national level will guarantee your local workers are from a limited talent pool.
Google actually allows people to easily move. You can just apply to roles internally without your current manager knowing, talk to the new manager (no interviews). New manager looks at your perf history and if there is interest from both sides they move forward.
In case of transfers across locations, HR draws up a revised offer that adjusts the cost of living multiplier. If you're transferring internationally or on visa, immigration will get involved up make sure everything is lined up. In few cases people cannot move due to immigration reasons, but that is outside the control of Google.
I felt it's a fair process to pay based on prevailing rate in that local market. As another poster said, if the local market is paying more, Google will see higher attrition and will be forced to up there comp. If enough people are not leaving, it usually means that the comp is fine.
This sounds like theyโre also reducing the initial equity grant now. So itโs not a huge change but it was probably part of formalizing the distributed workforce strategy for the company.
The companies have made it clear they will only pay as much as the competition forces them to. Thereโs barely any competition in some of these areas, hence the lower pay.
This shows you that the second you remove the prospect of employer competition - by going โremoteโ - the companies will resort to paying the bare minimum they can get away with.
There are definitely not that many companies or roles open to remote. Iโm going through a job search right now and I think a couple out of 20+ positions so far were open to remote work.
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In case of transfers across locations, HR draws up a revised offer that adjusts the cost of living multiplier. If you're transferring internationally or on visa, immigration will get involved up make sure everything is lined up. In few cases people cannot move due to immigration reasons, but that is outside the control of Google.
I felt it's a fair process to pay based on prevailing rate in that local market. As another poster said, if the local market is paying more, Google will see higher attrition and will be forced to up there comp. If enough people are not leaving, it usually means that the comp is fine.
The companies have made it clear they will only pay as much as the competition forces them to. Thereโs barely any competition in some of these areas, hence the lower pay.
Sorry, no hire. Not a culture fit.