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The daycare wasn't free, at least not when I started in early 2007, and the waiting list was huge. It wasn't presented that way through my long interview proce
by nigelk 3y ago
The daycare wasn't free, at least not when I started in early 2007, and the waiting list was huge.
It wasn't presented that way through my long interview process where the benefits were discussed a number of times. I relocated from Australia with a young family, and the cost and wait time for childcare was somewhat of a sour note amongst the holy-shit-is-this-place-real feeling of my first few months at Google HQ.
- apwell23 3y agois it available to all employees and do they all get on a single waitlist or do executives get a preference.
- nigelk 3y agoIt was certainly executive-level pricing :) To answer your question, I don't know. The wait list was well over a year, and it was many many times more expensive than other childcare options in the Mountain View area, and utterly unaffordable for me on a senior SRE salary.
- apwell23 3y ago> to know that the cost and difficulty of arranging childcare is one of the things that drives people to exit the workplace and become stay-at-home parents, or perhaps part-timers in a less 'all-in' place than google. oh got it. Top comment made it sound like it was cheap/free of cost
- nigelk 3y agoas did the Google recruiters and HR people I spoke to before accepting the job :)
- swozey 3y agoAnother comment in here says it could be up to 4-5k/mo. Idk about googler parents but thats pretty much an entire 2 week net-income paycheck to me.. IIRC my friends with kids pay something like 2-3k/mo I think for their daycare but I'm in CO not CA.
- apwell23 3y agowe pay 2k/month here in chicago, so that number kind of makes sense to me.
- MarketingJason 3y agoI'll bet many people were willing to pay that if executives and managers had there kids there. Daycare can provide unique kinds of networking and job-security/promotion options.