Had a three hour on site interview that was a pure three hours of hypos. I have no idea how I did but just for future reference what are good strategies for handling hypos?
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Had a three hour on site interview that was a pure three hours of hypos. I have no idea how I did but just for future reference what are good strategies for handling hypos?
Option 1 - stay at current individual contributor role for several years, easy and essentially remote with maybe 1-2 days a month in office that is 20 min away. 250 base, 50% bonus, 75k RSUs. Option 2 - take offer for 310 base, 45% bonus, 90k RSUs. Managing small team, more responsibility, 2 days in office that is almost 2 hour commute one way (train and subway). Unclear if flex on office requirement but assume for role will need to show up.
comp check 337k base , 25% bonus, some espp with 15% discount and i can sell immediately after vest. and 6 YOE. Experience is all in house, role is for a senior tech transactions and AI role in a financial institution. VHCOL hybrid, but already have the house paid so no mortgage.
Comp check: 3–5 YOE considering first in-house move at growth-stage tech company. Offer is $175k base, no bonus, 4% 401k match, solid healthcare/perks, small equity grant vesting over 4 years, fully remote, and appears to be a lean legal team with broad responsibility.
Am 200 employment associate in HCOL city with 8YOE. $225k base & $15-60k hours-based bonus (got max bonus last year for 2050h). Have opportunity to go in-house at large private co. through a referral. Likely $150-160k base with 30% bonus, much better wlb (true 9-5), good remote work policy (2 days in office v 3 days at firm), & apparent opportunity for role to expand with & help shape co.’s emerging AI policies. Equity unclear & seems limited for new hires but possibly negotiable. Thoughts?
Currently at a stable Fortune 500 company , 4 years of in-house experience. Comp is $200K base, 20% bonus, and $25K in stock annually, all in a MCOL city. The quality of life is great, but my wife 2 kids and I have no real support system nearby. I now have an opportunity to move home to a HCOL city for a role at less stable company offering $180K base, 15% bonus, and $10K in annual stock. The draw is being close to family, especially our aging parents, who are all between 72–80. Thoughts?
lol sounds like a nightmare i would walkout after the first hour
Google and Amazon do this
Google?
Sounds similar to an Amazon loop. I’m sure it was exhausting. Fingers crossed for you, if you liked the job!
Wait. This was at the company? Not take-home assignment?
you are my Puppet
Practice. This is kind of what my actual day to day is like. Random thing happens, I have to give advice quickly or on the spot, then another random thing happens, and repeat
Yea I do. Privacy at a firm
Hypos are very common at Google, yes, though we don’t have this sort of three hour on-sites (it’s all remote, and spaced out). But hypos are super helpful for seeing how a job applicant thinks. How quickly are they grasping the technology? Did they do their homework and know the major issues (privacy, competition, content, kids…)? How do they structure their analysis and are they proactively thinking about mitigations and ways to help the business move forward (eg, “maybe we’ll have some GDPR and DMA issues here, but we could launch outside of EEA while we build the blahblahblah…”)
great way to harvest free research to feed into Deep Mind
Sounds like they were looking for free advice!
My main concern after reading the comments is this a red flag?
At Amazon. Totally normal. It was so challenging to me as a fifth year who'd only done finance deal work till then, but I enjoy my job now (product and regulatory) and 90% of my day is basically random hypo work.
What type of practice/role?
A product role.