Google v Meta v Stripe
Finished a long haul of interviews. Ended up with these offers. Which one would you take and based on which factors? Also open to any questions about my prep, negotiations, etc. Job market def ain’t what it used to be so I’m here to help if possible. YOE 5 TC 0 (funemployed) #engineering #software #swe #interviews
That is a damn good L4 offer. But are you currently working at Google? Why are there two options for G, one with 0 TC and other with 317?
Location?
NYC
Have upcoming phone screens with both Google (L4) and Meta (E5), any advice to share?
Honestly, pay leetcode their 40 bucks a month and do the top 100 questions for both companies. 5/6 of my meta questions were covered in their top 70, and the 6th was trivial. There’s no better return on your investment for coding question prep
@kubachi how is premium helpful if google doesn't repeat question?
Nice offers OP! How did you prep for google and meta?
Google - skipped straight to team matching since I was a xoogler. Beware, team matching for Google rn is insanely competitive. Meta - for coding do top 100 meta questions. High likelihood they’ll be taken from there. For sys design I used the two Alex xu books and DDIA.
Thank you!
have you already negotiated? I feel like you should be able to get meta up somewhat
This was after negotiations. Meta didn’t match Google which I found interesting. Recruiter said I would need “more data” to get a stronger offer, no indication if it was the best they could do or not
thanks for the insight king. good luck OP, I think the recruiters are really playing hardball. Curious if this blog matched your experiences https://interviewing.io/blog/how-to-negotiate-with-meta
200k for google L4 base? that's the first time I'm hearing this. Dang... For Meta, i think you could negotiate for 400k rsu and higher sign-on bonus. I forgot what was the base refresher for Google for L4. It's been a while. Was it around 80k range if you meet all the expectations? For meta, it's 88k for L4.
How was your rating when you left Google ?
CME/SI. Nothing crazy
Pretty sure Stripe would have 10% bonus on top.
That is true, forgot to add. Can't edit offers unfortunately
I believe all Google offers are now front loaded.
Added YOE (5) Google is frontloaded 38/32/20/10