L6 staff at google- AMA

Travelling over the next few hours. Thought of doing an AMA. First job out of college, 8+ year experience. TC :1.8cr

8mo ago

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PerkyDumpling

Stealth8mo

How much have you saved ? Just curious with that high of a salary :)
Also have you moved departments in Google?

FuzzyMuffin

Google8mo

My NW would be around 9-10cr. Nope same PA throughout

SparklyJellybean

Zomato8mo

Just a doubt retire kyu nahi hote ? , or do something very interested in ?

SquishyQuokka

Gojek8mo

Hey @Shophunt I'm @salt

What do you think about the ongoing culling of senior folks within Google right now?
Where you headed? I'm sure it must be a baller location.

FuzzyMuffin

Google8mo

it was all zirp. We hired too many people and you need people to lead them. Now we are reducing hc and don’t need as many people. So we don’t need as many seniors folks. It will stabilise over time
I am still at google and no plan to leave anytime soon. Unless fired :)

PerkyKoala

Stealth8mo

What will your advice be for someone working in a startup in early career? Should they get their MS/MBA or continue grinding if the pay is good?

FuzzyMuffin

Google8mo

It depends on what you want to do. So I can’t answer that for you. I can try to answer what all options provide you

staying in a start up: staying in a startup accelerates your ability to solve problems faster. However you don’t always become the best engineer as velocity is more important than maintenance and other concerns.
if you don’t want to remain technical, you can do MBA. There are better ways to do this by trying out product roles but MBA might be faster
MS is generally useless. Only two things for which you should do MS: 1) you are finding it hard to crack product companies in India and have money to do MS and long term want to settle outside. 2) you want to see if you can do phd but don’t know if you can survive 5 years. MS is pretty useless outside of these.

SwirlyPretzel

Google8mo

What advice do you have for someone who is in their early career at Google right now?

FuzzyMuffin

Google8mo

I think my biggest learning is to not have a short term view of your career. Lot of people optimise for short term wins and lose long term view. Simple example an infrastructure engineer doesn’t want to work on a client feature cz they would need to ramp up and that would delay their promotion to l4/l5 let’s say. But you will find it infinitely more difficult to get promoted to l6 if you were just a back end engineer all your career

BubblyNoodle

Flipkart8mo

I was pitched L5 interview couple of years ago which I didn't take for personal reasons. Since then, I have been leading a project with 2 SDE1s in my company. I have total 7 years of experience. Will Google me for L6 role?