worth to jump to Google/Fb?

Feb 21, 2020 164 Comments

Currently 300k senior @Linkedin, worth to jump to Google cloud/Fb oculus for 270k L4 role? Or should I try to promo to staff and go for L5?

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  • Bay area?
    Feb 21, 2020 30
  • Amazon
    znabevfo

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    znabevfo
    I can’t imagine basically paying 30k a year subscription to tell people I work at another company lol
    Feb 21, 2020 7
  • Oracle
    fghij9

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    fghij9
    If you are happy with your job no. Linkedin pays very competitively and I hear very positivitie things about the culture. Promo is also easier than Google on average. Google especially downlevels like crazy so I being staff or senior staff doesnt guarantee L5.
    The only reason you could change is that there are not teams workin on domains you want to work on, for eg no one at Linkedin does ML infra with servinn requirements as Google Ads/Fb Ads, or they dont have teams just working on improving compilers by or writing their own DB storage layer. For eg Kafka was built at Linkedin but it is written in Java with not a lot of really cool engineering optimizations done to make it scale out faster(which is alright you dont need that at Linkedin) but at Google scale they write it in optimized C++ just to get those perf improvements. If you care about something like this move to Google/Fb else hard pass.
    Feb 21, 2020 13
  • LinkedIn senior needs at least Google L5. Worse, level, scope, impact, less increases and even worse food! Not worth it!
    Feb 21, 2020 10
  • Google
    al6oo6

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    al6oo6
    I was L4 at LinkedIn with 300k and I realized I have no hopes of promo with 5+ yoe and a PhD. I was severely under-leveled and my team was going nowhere. So I interviewed at Google, aced it, got L5 (they originally downleveled at L4 but I pushed back), and got 60k increase, and voila I'm here. One other thing was that I never got a stock refresher while at LinkedIn so I was looking towards a huge cliff. So made sense for me to move. But let me tell you getting promoted to L5 is way harder at Google. So maybe for you makes sense to stay?
    Feb 24, 2020 5
    • Google
      al6oo6

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      al6oo6
      I must admit that luck of interviewer plays a great deal. Last time I had interviewed with Google I got a question that needed the knowledge of obscure graph data structure / algorithm only used in networks which I had learned about at the end of Corman book but obviously had forgotten about it. This time questions were hard but made sense and you could solve them if you knew common stuff and solved enough questions. I can't say they're LC hard or what but needed experience solving questions. I had done about 100 LC questions. So I got 2 coding questions which I did well I think. I solved first coding question fast and the follow up in time in one coding interview. Being able to solve 2 questions in one interview is really positive. Then I had 2 ML questions since that was my PhD area. I did extremely well since apparently the model I chose was exactly what interviewer had in mind and he ran out of questions to ask so we sat and chat for like 10 mins. The other Ml was good not perfect. I also got another interview which I can only call ML coding questions. Guy came in and said implement an algorithm that detects language of a text. I had to make a lot of assumptions which I think was the point of interview for instance what classifers are available and what I wrote. I think I did well too since interviewer kind of slipped that my assumptions were on point. So hard interviews but in line with my experience. The previous interview I failed, I got lots of network questions that were not my expertise at all.
      Feb 24, 2020
    • Good stuff. Thanks for the detailed reply🙏.
      Feb 24, 2020