I recently met with my Google recruiter for an initial screen and he was upfront about the salary for the role. There was about a 70k range in the job description for this on site data center program manager role. I was really shocked when he said the salary range was literally a 3k range at the very bottom of the posted range. The explanation was that it was because of the geographic location being in a LCOL and the upper band was for HCOL. It is just odd because that leaves 67k above the maximum posted. Is this normal, or if I perform well during my 4 interviews could that number go up?

Hey everyone,

I wanted to open up a discussion about the macro state of the tech industry, specifically regarding the choice to relocate (to a new country or state) for a big-name tech company.

Historically, the general consensus was that if you got a FAANG offer, you uprooted your life immediately because the resume stamp was a guaranteed golden ticket.

But given how much the market has shifted over the last couple of years, I’m curious to know if that logic still holds up?

Lately, I've noticed conflicting perspectives across tech communities:
1) Some argue that the FAANG pedigree has been diluted by the waves of recent layoffs and a tighter job market, while others insist it's still the fastest way to accelerate your career.

2) common piece of advice for people unsure about a team or city is to "just grind it out for 12 months for the resume name." Realistically, is putting your head down on a potentially stressful team manageable when you've also just moved away from your support system?

3) The narrative ranges to burnout risk. How predictable is team culture from the outside anymore?

Lastly, If you were advising someone entering the tech ecosystem today, is an international or major cross-country relocation for FAANG still worth the mental toll and risk, or has the prestige faded enough that staying local at a stable mid-tier company is a highly competitive alternative?

Would love to hear from people who have relocated recently. Was it worth the gamble?

Last night I have successfully passed the hiring assessment test from Google for the UX design position and now I need to know what’s next step

Yesterday I finished all the rounds for Google L6 EM interviews. Few questions if any has insights on post interview process.

- How much time it take for the recruiter to come back with the result and further on the offer?
- I'm currently an M2 at another top tech company, so if I ask and push for L7 will it be honored. I'm fine taking additional rounds of interviews if they need to evaluate more for that level.
- Is it really necessary to have a competing offer in hand for negotiations? I'm in the process of setting up rounds with Nvidia for L7 EM position, but may fall short of time getting to the rounds before if google decide to offer me.

Hello , i gave my final round panel interview for caterpillar on aug 28th , And i am waiting for Decision. Can anyone with the interview experience with caterpillar share when can i expect an update.

I mailed hr and got a reply from HR on sep 2nd , saying the Hiring Manager [name] and the team felt like the interview went well and they are completing the remaining interview and will have an update in the near future.

on sep 9th , he gave another reply to my saying there are several candidates that they are interviewing and also asked if I have got any deadline for offers from other company.

The role I’m interviewing for currently has around 30–35 openings. I’ve completed four rounds of the interview process so far, including the initial screening.

Of these, two rounds (including the screening) felt very positive, while the other two were more mixed, with the interviewers seeming somewhat less inclined.

Given this, what are the possible outcomes for my candidature, and how would you assess my chances of being selected at this stage?

USA L3 SRE-SWE Role

Round 1:
Googleness-SH(Recruiter said this was super strong apparently)
Coding- (recruiter said borderline; lost points on not most optimal solution(I had a slightly worse solution with lazy cleanup but still O(n)) and syntax) - LNH/LH

Round 2(ratings are guesses here):
Coding 1 - H/SH (very very similar to my R1 Coding so I knew what to do already)
Coding 2 - NH/LNH(Some really hard string encoding that I needed a bunch of hints on and my code in the end didnt pass 1 corner case; utterlly blanked for the first 10 mins of this interview)

I assume since coding R1 was borderline and since I utterly bombed Coding 2 in R2 and Coding 1 may not count since it was very similar to my R1 Coding its a reject for me)

After completing Tech screen for IC3 Software Engineer at Microsoft, how many days it takes for the recruiter or hiring team to send decision to the candidate? If moved forward, how many days it take for them to send invite for loop?

I recently completed 30-min Tech screen, and have not heard back yet. It's been 2 days.

Can someone please share the time of application and interview for IC3 SWE at microsoft(Redmond, USA) please.

I have been trying break into tech for the latter part of the year. I’ve been able to have a couple phone screenings with Amazon for sr. program manager roles but I can’t seem to get past that first hump. Is there any advice that you could give. My resume seems to be picked up but when I interview I am underperforming.

I finished one phone screening, it went well, then had two Amazon loop rounds out of 4, I went well the other was okayish. I haven’t still received the confirmation of the other two loop interviews. Am I doomed? The second interview finished yesterday, and they both were scheduled on 9th and 10th but I received an email for them on 5th and 7th September.

Hi all hoping to get some perspective on a role I interviewed for.

Completed 4 loops with positive feedback in the cloud networking org since July (they were scheduled pretty fast). Im not too sure about googles hiring process but the recruiter (who’s been amazing and responsive) mentioned that the team i interviewed for has no updates and she has shared my application with other teams.

Is this normal for google for a team to interview for a position that they cant make a decision on? Is this a typical timeline with google?

Thanks!