• Education: B.Tech in Computer Science
• Years of Experience: 5 yrs
• Prior Experience: Leading FinTech Company
• Previous CTC: 28,00,000 INR (Base + Bonus + Stocks)
• Date of the Offer: November 2021
• Company: Google
• Title/Level: L4 or SDE 2
• Location: Bangalore
• Salary: 40,00,000 INR
• Employer PF: 1,92,000 INR
• Gratuity: 77,000 INR
• Annual Bonus: 6,00,000 INR (15% of Base Pay)
• Relocation Bonus: 5,00,000 INR
• Joining Bonus: 3,00,000 INR
• Stock bonus: 120,000$ (Vested across 4 years, front loading - 33,33,22,12)
• Total comp (Salary + Annual Bonus + Stock + One time bonus): 1st year - 85,50,000 INR, 2nd year - 77,50,000 INR, 3rd year - 67,50,000 INR, 4th year - 58,50,000 INR
• Benefits: Standard Google Benefits
• Other details: Had a competing offer from Uber, used it to negotiate. You can find the Uber offer here - https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1639867/Uber-or-L4-or-Bangalore-or-India-or-Accepted. Recruiter initialy offered me a lowballed offer, managed to negotiate and bring it to this final offer.

You can find my interview experience here - https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/1658957/Google-or-SDE-2-or-L4-or-Bangalore-or-India-or-November-2021-Offer

My preparation journey - https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/1664001/FAANG-Preparation-Journey