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> Google offers are very competitive, some might say generous, and very thorough. Interesting, I've always heard Google doesn't pay very well. Similar to game
by city41 16y ago
> Google offers are very competitive, some might say generous, and very thorough.
Interesting, I've always heard Google doesn't pay very well. Similar to game companies, they can take advantage of the fact people really want to work there and know candidates will accept lower pay because of it. I've heard that from several Google employees past and present. Perhaps things have changed?
- shin_lao 16y agoGoogle didn't pay well in 2007. A friend and me went very far in the recruitment process and it stopped as soon as we explained we expected more money.
- brown9-2 16y agoMeaning that you received offers?
- shin_lao 16y agoWe didn't get any formal offer, it stopped when the recruiter was testing the waters. I won't discuss my personal story as I'm not anonymous here. For my friend everything was very sweet until he mentioned that taking the job would require his wife to drop hers resulting in an income loss and he was concerned about this. Maybe he wasn't very subtle about it, but the minute he told that to the recruiter everything went black (got a "thank you mail" the next morning). That being said the recruitment experience was very nice and I got a lot of good interview questions out of it.
- dstein 16y agoI think Google is past the point where it can attract talent on reputation alone. They're already public AND their stock has probably peaked which makes stock options worthless. I imagine Google, like other companies, are having trouble attracting and retaining the top talent. There's a lot more opportunity right now in building a startup, and all the top developers know it.
- willscott 16y agoAs a recent Google hire, I think the article gets this point right, the offer was competitive if not generous. At the new-grad level at least I'm in the high-end of what I was expecting to be making. I know that the reason I wanted to work at Google was to learn how to solve problems involving scale and massive parallelism. There really isn't anywhere else that can teach you that stuff as well.
- d2viant 16y agoAmazon and Facebook both come to mind when I think of scale and massive parallelism. Microsoft as well, but it doesn't get as much attention.
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