Education: Btech in Computer Science from NIT
Years of Experience: 2years 7months
Prior Experience: Paypal
Date of the Offer: Feb 2022
Company: Google
Title/Level: Software Engineer 2 / L3
Location: Bangalore
Base Salary: 25L
PF+Gratutiy : ~3.3L
Relocation: 1.7L
Signing Bonus: 5L
Stock bonus: $61K stock grant vested over 4 years(33%,33%,22%,11%)
Bonus: 3.75L ~ 15% of base
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): ~54L for 1st year
Benefits: Standard google benefits
Other details: Negotiated once, original offer did not have signing bonus and stocks were lower. Had a counter offer from startup worth 57L. Google does not consider ESOPS of startup as part of counter offer. Had 3 fit calls with different teams. Went ahead with 1 of these.
Verdict: Accepted
Interview Experience : 3 coding rounds , 1 gogglyness. Each coding round had 1 leetcode hard question.
Questions were related to
- Meeting room problem with priority queue and sorted Set
- DFS with random function
- String Matching different approaches - open ended/vague question
I have solved around 450 questions on leetcode mostly sequentially, but did not find any of these in leetcode 1-400.