Education: MS in CS (USA)
Years of Experience: 5
Prior Experiences: Solutions Engineering & SDET roles
Previous Compensation: 114k Base + 11.4k Bonus + 20k RSUs/year ~= 155k
New Title/Level: Software Engineer II
Location: Seattle, WA
New Salary: USD 150k Base + 7.5k Peformance Bonus (5% but can go up to 25%) + 310k RSUs (vested 25%, 25%, 25%, 25%)
Relocation Bonus: USD 13k
Sign On Bonus: USD 20k
Additional Stock Bonus: 20k worth RSUs vested in first year additionally
Total New Compensation: ~ USD 288k (first year) & USD 235k (second year onwards)
Benefits: Standard Benefits
Interview Experience:
- Recruiter Phone Screen.
- Online Code Pair Tech Screen.
Leetcode Medium similar to: https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-substring-without-repeating-characters/
- Online Coding Pair Interview - Round 1. (Focus was mostly on how the code covers edge cases, approach and intuition)
Question: Finding valid and latest document versions from list of different document-version mappings.
Inputs: List of document-version mappings for several documents (includes valid version parsing, etc.)
- Online Coding Pair Interview - Round 2. (Focus was mostly on how the code covers edge cases, approach and intuition)
Question: Finding the topmost in the management chain for a given employee ID.
Inputs provided: Desired employee ID, List of employee ID-manager ID mappings (organization hierarchy)
- System Design Interview.
Question: Design an email client tool.
- Behavioral/Personal Skills Interview with Hiring Manager. (TACOS principles)
Overall experience was good. People were kind and transparent about the team and the role. Accepted the offer.