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0 pointsapwell232y ago0 comments

is it available to all employees and do they all get on a single waitlist or do executives get a preference.

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It was certainly executive-level pricing :) To answer your question, I don't know. The wait list was well over a year, and it was many many times more expensive than other childcare options in the Mountain View area, and utterly unaffordable for me on a senior SRE salary.

apwell23OP2y ago

> to know that the cost and difficulty of arranging childcare is one of the things that drives people to exit the workplace and become stay-at-home parents, or perhaps part-timers in a less 'all-in' place than google.

oh got it. Top comment made it sound like it was cheap/free of cost

nigelk2y ago

as did the Google recruiters and HR people I spoke to before accepting the job :)

swozey2y ago

Another comment in here says it could be up to 4-5k/mo. Idk about googler parents but thats pretty much an entire 2 week net-income paycheck to me.. IIRC my friends with kids pay something like 2-3k/mo I think for their daycare but I'm in CO not CA.

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MarketingJason2y ago

I'll bet many people were willing to pay that if executives and managers had there kids there. Daycare can provide unique kinds of networking and job-security/promotion options.

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nigelk2y ago

apwell23OP2y ago

oh got it. Top comment made it sound like it was cheap/free of cost

nigelk2y ago

as did the Google recruiters and HR people I spoke to before accepting the job :)

swozey2y ago

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MarketingJason2y ago

I'll bet many people were willing to pay that if executives and managers had there kids there. Daycare can provide unique kinds of networking and job-security/promotion options.

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