#tech Okay no big posts and explainatioms . Just tell the average number of hours at your level.
It’s pretty intense. No boundaries. You expected to jump in in the middle of the night. Also oncalls are brutual. All SWEs are oncall, it’s one week 24 hours. Apart from that there is constant pip pressure. FB hires easy and fires fast. Managers has heavy weight on these decisions. Meaning if you get your manager mad, you’ll fired soon. I’ve seen very vengeful managers during my tenure. Overal wlb is more google thing.
Is it possible for new grads at Google to have fast career progression (e.g. L3 -> L5 in ~5 years) and TC relative to what would be found at FB?
Promos are hard at Google but you can make it to L5 at 5 years with right projects and team and a supporting manager. 5 years is the median. TC will be lower for internal promos. You don’t get market match. Just a little bump. Get L5 and move to FB as E6 easily. You’ll get 600k
It depends on the org/team
It depends on your org and team (eg meetings across timezones). I see most people in my org with good wlb, and those who dont is usually self-imposed (eg trying to grind a promo). For me, the past 3 years were pretty alright. At E5, I did 40h or less on average per week, and promo. The expectations at E6 made things a bit more volatile. I still average 40h work weeks but it has more peaks, which i then compensate working less other days.
Which lovely org is this
Depends on the person/team. The key part is finding high leverage work and aggressively cutting scope / not over commiting. E7 / I work 40 hours per week most of the year with about 1 60 hour weeks every quarter to deal with a misc fire. TC 1.3M
E5, usually 20 hours per week. Sometimes 40+ hours.
tc or gtfo