Anyone care to share details on compensation and career progression (bumps in salary / stock) in London?
Also the bonuses quoted here sound a lot higher than the standard 15%.
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#32Not at google but MSFT. SDEII. 7 Years of coding experience full time. Base: 110k Signing bonus: $0k cash, $6k in stocks. On H1B visa so can't quit, but as soon as I get green card, I should definitely look around. Geez, you folks are making me feel really bad.
I was complaining on the other thread that as an SDE II I'm making just about the same as an SDE I who posted there. But you, my friend, are underpaid :(
You can switch to another company on H-1B, but if you've already started the Green Card progress, it will get reset.
BTW, I was hired as an SDE I even with 6 years experience.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Google?
#33I work in Google SF. 7 years in Industry since I got my CS degree. I'm at L4 and I'm at 117 base plus 40k stock a year (30k at grant time).
Here's how to get $20k in 5 minutes tip for you:
Step 1: wake up and walk to your manager's office on monday.
Step 2: Announce that you're "considering" leaving for personal reasons to "explore what's around"
Step 3: Invite your wife [girlfiend or whoever] to celebrate $20k boost in your salary by the end of the day.
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#34Just curious, anyone know what kind of package I could get at Google or equiv? Or am I too old?
I'm a 36 year old associate professor in Statistics at a top 20 international university and I also have extensive coding experience (10+ years professional experience).
I currently make around $100K salary + $80-100K consulting on side. I also bring in more than $100K a year in grant money that I use to pay RAs, etc.
Are there people with similar backgrounds that have made the leap? I'm keen to hear from them.
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#35Early engineer at a San Francisco unicorn
16 years of experience overall; 5 years with this firm
Male, H-1B from India
Title - Started out as Principal Engineer, now Sr. Engineering Manager
Current comp: 220K base, 150K/yr of (illiquid) stock
Some portion of the stock is in the form of options, some are RSUs. I took the price per share from the last funding round, deducted the strike price of the options and arrived at the dollar value.
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#361 year prior professional SWE experience at the time of hiring, CS undergrad degree from a state university
Female, mixed ethnicity, American/native English speaker
SWE II, L3, Mountain View
$110k base, ~$45k in stock, 15% target bonus ($172k total assuming stock price stays stable and I make said bonus)
Worth noting that I tried not to give my then-current pay to the recruiter during the hiring process and was (very politely) told that they'd cancel my application if I didn't give them a number. Also tried to negotiate this offer up (asked for $120k base) and again, got told to take it or leave it.
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#37SWE III, L4, NYC
150k base, 40k signing bonus, ~27k yearly bonus, ~130k yearly stock
8 years prior experience before Google
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#38I'll add my $.02 for LinkedIn. Sr Software Eng at LinkedIn in CA. $165,000 Base $25,000 Hiring Bonus $300,000 Stock (25% 1st year, then quarterly for the remaining 75% over 3 years) ($300,000 at the time, now it's only about half that). 10% annual bonus. Male. Native English Speaker. I can also speak to a friend here all the stats are the same except he got a $35,000 moving stipend instead of a hiring bonus.
Same, but only ~3 years out of undergrad, 160k base, 15% bonus, 280k over 4 years (but this dropped by half with the latest LinkedIn stock plunge), and 40k signing. Expecting to get to staff (L4) in about a year based on feedback from my director, interested to see if it jumps or I get a stock refresher.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Google?
#39Early engineer at a San Francisco unicorn 16 years of experience overall; 5 years with this firm Male, H-1B from India Title - Started out as Principal Engineer, now Sr. Engineering Manager Current comp: 220K base, 150K/yr of (illiquid) stock Some portion of the stock is in the form of options, some are RSUs. I took the price per share from the last funding round, deducted the strike price of the options and arrived…
How many people are in your org?
Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Google?
#40Hey, Googlers. I'm interested in working at Google and I'd like to talk to someone who left Amazon/AWS to there. I put an e-mail alias in my profile for anyone interested.
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