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Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by ummonk on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:06PM (#20687134)
He's right that Google doesn't generally pay competitively, but wrong in comparing to smaller startups. It's some of the larger companies (Facebook, LinkedIn, AirBnB, etc.) that Google tends to fall short of.
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Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by ggambetta on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:11PM (#20687857)
Interesting, I don't have that impression. levels.fyi doesn't show much disparity, for example. Where do you get this from?
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Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by ummonk on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:54AM (#20692802)
They have a tendency to down-level a lot, which won't show up on levels.fyi (though if you look at the leveling by years of experience it might be extractable).

Also, from what I understand they tend to lowball much more aggressively than other top companies if you don't have any strong competing offers. Levels.fyi submitters will of course be the kinds of people who tend to shop around and get competing offers.

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