Software Engineer II
Google is hiring freshers and I found this compensation structure post on Linkedin.
At L3 entry level, a Google engineer in India earns ₹13.5L/yr in RSUs.
At L5, it's ₹45L. At L6, ₹84L.
That's a meaningful slice of their wealth sitting in US stock.
Often I ask these young engineers two questions.
First: "What do you do with your RSUs?"
Answer is almost always: "Holding. Long-term."
Second: "How do you file taxes on it?"
Answer: silence. Or "Schedule FA? What's that?"
We're solving for this lack of awareness at Rovia
Schedule FA is a mandatory ITR schedule for Indian residents with foreign assets — including RSUs you've never sold. Most salaried employees don't know it exists. Their CAs often don't either.
ITR deadline is July 31.
We built a FREE Schedule FA generator — upload your E*TRADE or Morgan Stanley statement, and it generates your FA schedule, lot by lot.
DM me for the link or check out Rovia website.
If this resonates, share it with someone at a US tech company in India. The gap between knowing you hold RSUs and knowing how to stay compliant is wider than it should be.
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Interview advice
Going for the Software Engineer role at Google? A few things that help freshers walk in prepared:
- Revise core data structures and be ready to explain the logic in your best project line by line — interviewers care more about how you reason than which language you used.
- Put numbers on your achievements: "8.5/10 GPA", "cut load time by 40%", "led a team of four" lands far better than "good grades" or "hard-working".
- For a virtual interview, test your internet, camera and mic in advance, sit somewhere quiet and well-lit, and still dress formally — it signals you are serious.
- Prepare two or three thoughtful questions to ask them about the team, the work and growth; "I have no questions" reads as low interest.
- It is fine not to know something — say how you would find the answer. Freshers are hired for how they think, not for knowing everything already.