Education: MS in CS (from a top-10 US Univ.)
Years of Experience: 2
Prior Experience: Machine Learning Engineer at a fast-growth Bay area startup (prior to that, internships at Microsoft and IBM Research)
For experienced engineer, what's your current and past experience? Machine Learning (NLP)
Date of the Offer: April-2021
Company: Google
Title/Level: Machine Learning SWE (L4)
Location: Mountain View, CA
Base Salary: 35,000
Stock bonus: 300,000 (average per year, $325,000 for first year)
Benefits: Standard Google Benefits (one of the best in industry :)) + very good stock refreshers!
Other details:
I had 3 programming/coding rounds, 1 ML system design round and 1 behavioral round for the onsite. For tech screen, i had a single coding round. I will share the interview experience (and prep materials) soon, but my prep for coding rounds only involved Leetcode. For ML system design, i went through some white papers and engineering blogposts from FAANG+ companies.
My LC count: Easy/Medium/Hard - 0/200/200
Competing offers:
Microsoft (Seattle): https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1186350/Microsoft-or-Applied-Scientist-(L62)-or-Seattle
Amazon (Bay area): https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1128973/amazon-l5-mle-san-francisco/889467
Interview experience(s):
Microsoft: https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/1179986/Microsoft-or-Applied-Scientist-2-or-SDE-2-or-L62-or-Seattle-WA-Offer