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It is vastly different in the bay area where public transit is a horrible mess and the freeways are all at 300% capacity. A friend who is a Googler is looking a
by dsl 5y ago
It is vastly different in the bay area where public transit is a horrible mess and the freeways are all at 300% capacity. A friend who is a Googler is looking at a 30 minute commute to a GBus stop for a 90 minute ride each way. Going to the office is cutting productivity basically in half.
- xanaxagoras 5y agoThat 4 hours to and from work doesn't come out of "his time"? e.g. leave at 7 to get there by 9, leave at 6 to get home at 8.
- teaearlgraycold 5y agoSome Googlers might choose to live like that - but I don’t think they can make Googlers give up their entire lives to work.
- yupper32 5y agoHonestly that's their issue that can be fixed. There's no reason someone with a Google salary needs to be 2 hours commute from the office.
- Thrymr 5y agoUnless of course they have family/spouse/SO who also need to be somewhere else.
- DataJunkie 5y ago
- joshuamorton 5y agoTo rephrase this: For the most junior (engineering) employees, a starting salary allows you to spend under the recommended maximum of 25-30% of your salary on rent to live in a decent 1BR apartment minutes from your office. You then receive significant bonus and stock on top of this. It's...not a problem.
- whimsicalism 5y agoIt is a pain to relocate from SF to South Bay, and pretty depressing at that.
- joshuamorton 5y agoI don't disagree! (I've lived in SF the entire time I've worked at Google, first it MTV, then SVL, then remote, now SVL again).
- morgante 5y agoL3 salary is $140k (from levels.fy). 30% of $140k allows for rent of $3.5k/m which is not actually all that generous. You're lucky to get a studio for that these days in Manhattan.
- whimsicalism 5y ago> $3.5k/m which is not actually all that generous. You're lucky to get a studio for that these days in Manhattan. Pshh.
- yupper32 5y agoSalary doesn't mean much. Total compensation for L3 should be around 180k in the bay area these days I believe. When I was at Google, my final salary was only half my total compensation.
- morgante 5y agoI know, but OP specifically said salary and that bonus/stock would come "on top."
- Jackim 5y agoI see dozens of studios/1 bedrooms on padmapper right now in Manhattan available for ~$2,200
- wmichelin 5y agoI know what a Google (engineering) salary is, and even if you're paying half of a tech salary to rent, the other half is still a hell of a lot to have leftover for your average American.
- yupper32 5y ago... I've worked for Google in the bay area.
- adam_arthur 5y agoMaybe they want to own a house that's not $3m dollars
- deanCommie 5y agoMaybe you can't have all three of: 1) a super highly paid tech salary 2) an affordable house 3) a short commute There are options for any 2/3 all over the world. Nowhere has all 3. You can't pick the two you chose and then get pity for not having the third.