• Education: B-Tech (Tier 3)
• Years of Experience: 1.8 ('20 Grad)
• Prior Experience: Software Engineer @ Amazon (L4)
• Date of the Offer: 10th March, 2022
• Company: Google
• Title/Level: Software Engineer L3
• Location: Bangalore
• Salary: 25 LPA Base
• Relocation/Signing Bonus: 3 LPA
• Stock bonus: $70k (33% 33% 22% 12%)
• Bonus: 15% of Base
• Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): 😴😴 Too lazy to calcualte it, can someone please do it? Should be 40L+ for the first two years atleast.
• Benefits: Standard Google Benefit 💙💚
• Other details: Had competing SDE2 offers as well from couple of startups. Will share that soon. Choosing Google since it is better aligned with my career goals. I initially tried for L4 but got pushed to L3 since I'd one average round.

On a lighter note :
I'm sharing this compensation with a mixed feeling. Never thought one day I'll share my G offer here. L3 is no big deal for some, but for me, I earned it and I respect it a lot. 🥺

LC : 650+ questions.

Edit 1 : Please let me know the reason behind the downvotes as well. The intent of the post was to give back to the community. I'm not posting this for upvotes but at the same time, downvotes can mislead people.

If the community feel it is fake or should not here, I'll be happy to remove it.

Edit 2 :

I'll soon pen down my interview experience & preparation strategy.

Interview experience summary :

• There were 5 tech rounds (1 phone screen + 4 onsites) + 1 Googleyness
• Mostly the rounds followed the same pattern. It started with a easy/easy-medium problem and then a followup question raised the difficulty bar to medium/medium-hard
• I realized it is very important to share your train of thoughts with the interviewer. The interviewer is looking for how you approach and make different trade-offs rather than directly vomiting out the answer
• Naming convention, comments, modularity will get you brownie points. Dry run your solution for atleast one solid test case
• Prepare well with LC medium level questions. They helped me the most. I've only solved the ~50 hard questions (most of them with tears in my eyes)

Preparation strategy summary :

• Consistency is the key.
• Refer the discuss section once you have solved the problem for alternate approach
• Do evaluate the complexity for the problems you have solved
• Focus on your weak areas rather than solving easy problems
• After an hour or so, if I was not able to crack the logic, I looked into the discuss for hints. (time mentioned here will vary from people to people)
• I did buy LC premium for a month but only solved ~30 premium problems. So regular free subscription of LC is more than enough