As 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-e

As 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.