[corporateslave5]

Recently Google has actually been low balling a lot of candidates and is nowhere near top of market. In many cases they are refusing to match competing offers, and are even offering people less money than what they are currently making

[macintux]

Heck, they just reached out to me, which means they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[philliphaydon]

Not true. I haven’t been contacted yet so they definitely haven’t reached the bottom. :)

[silentsea90]

Exactly what happened to me. I had offers from Google, Airbnb, Lyft and Uber. In terms of numbers, Lyft > Airbnb > Google > Uber.

Google tried to lowball me all the way through, and asked me to share screenshots of actual emails from other companies to prove my other numbers. They increased the numbers but frankly, they weren't anywhere close to Airbnb/Lyft. They did not act like a company that would beat other offers for talent. My offer was in the AI Assistant team under Google Search, so it wasn't an orphaned arbitrary product team either. Broke my heart coz I was so keen on joining Google from the start.

Hope this helps somebody out there!