Are base salaries going down at google for new grads?
No. Infact the base salaries for India have been bumped up: 18.4 for B.Tech students 19.7 for Dual degree The component which got decreased is the Stock grant: from $50k to $32.5k
No? Base salaries went up by quite a bit recently. For example, for bachelor’s grads they went from 131k -> 142k in Bay/NYC, 118k -> 127k in Seattle/Kirkland/Boston, and for master’s they went from 134k -> 144k in Bay/NYC.
They need to make up for all that prestige in your TC somehow