Appraisal at FAANG companies

What does refresher for FAANGM look like at different levels?

Can people who have been at FAANG for 4-5+ years share what their salary progression has been like? I came to know recently about someone where the first year TC for a L5 position at Google was 1.54cr where the base was 60.5 lpa. Assuming one starts at 1.54cr (which in my mind is already quite inflated for someone with 8 year experience), what would their salary progression look like?

Dear experienced people of grapevine please share your appraisal % you got so far along with company, number of people (to get an idea of company size), service/product based and your experience level How much % is okay, good, best ? (It could be subjective but let's try to answer honestly) TIA!

Hi I want to get job at offcampus Microsoft, I am cse-2024 passout unplaced. Tell me from scratch what all skills are required to crack Microsoft,what should all i have to do? (CP,DSA...etc? ) I am ready to work really super hard Please spare 2min time and comment it will help me a lot

The company did around 10-15% silent layoffs in the last cycle by putting people in PIP. My Manager told me that he has pressure on him to put at least 1 or 2 people in PIP, make them leave the company and reduce costs. Later, the company did as low an appraisal as 2%. Senior folks are leaving specifically Frontend Developers. Salaries of a lot of SDE-2 are below 30 LPA. They have started new positions called Product Developers which will do the same work as SDEs but with a lesser package. PD-1 salary is around 10-12 lakhs and of Lead PD is 20-22 lakhs. The company is putting itself in a position where it wants people to leave on their own. There are almost zero perks in the company. The team outing budget is a joke which is 2k INR per person per year. That is 500 rupees per person per quarter. Also making office mandatory from November.

Came across a twitter post where a user says its impossible for tier 3 college folks to crack FAANG with freshers/low experience. How is the work culture at FAANG ??? Do you all get to work on the world changing products there ? FAANG folks plz answer. Exception is amazon. Would like to know the rest all companies work culture.

That has made me seriously look at non-FAANG jobs. FAANG no longer pays the best and no longer is the best work culture, is something I am starting to realise the more I talk to my friends about it.

How do you like the work-life balance in FAANG. Is that something special or as regular IT companies.

Offer : E4 175k pounds Current: L4 56 Lakhs YoE: 1 year 7 months Here's what I have considered: - Living in London is going to be costly, on an avg I'll be saving 1.2x of India. - Meta London created a bad reputation for itself when last year it laid off people from India just 2 days after joining - it's not worth it going from L4 to E4, I probably should switch only when getting a higher level or a big big pay bump (this is probably not a big pay bump considering the cost of living) - I am not very good at making friends, and I have quite some friends here now... I don't just want to leave everything and be alone in a new city so far away from home. - the only pro point I see is that.. it is London. Do you think I should reconsider my decision?