Had on-site with a few high profile companies in the past 12 months (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Uber, etc) and all got rejected (two for manager positions and others for IC roles). age near 40. have 13+ years of experience with the current title as an engineer manager (2 yoe). According to recruiters, I was all evaluated as a senior IC during interview. With all these rejections I started wondering if my technical skills are not on par with the senior roles in those big name companies. Especially I have relatively less experience on developing large scale distributed systems. Most of my past experience is in internal tools development or projects in smaller companies. Will that be weird if I tell recruiters that I would like to be considered for mid-level positions as well? Will FANG + unicorn company take a 40 years old developer in as a mid-level developer, or they see this as a sign the individual didn't grow fast enough? I have done near 300 Leetcode (about 60% medium and 10% hard questions) and don't think I have issues with the behavior interviews (I'm an engr. manager after all). System design is relatively weak (I couldn't pass the engr. manager interviews due to this) but should still be better than a junior developer. by the way I'm currently in a small-size public company. For some reason I need to use my side job email here or it's easy to be identified. Also, my TC is actually similar to the TC of mid-level positions in FANG + unicorns (200~250k). Since I had no experience working in those big names, I really want to go after those companies, instead of a better position in relatively unknown companies.
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Do you look 40? I mean, if you come in with gray hair and a walker, look like you’re going to fall over and behave all crotchety, then you’re going to have problems. However if you’re energetic and can knock out the coding problems, then downleveling a 40yo-ish person to L5 at Amazon isn’t terribly unusual. IC, I mean. It’d be hard to get a manager position with no large-scale distributed system experience as an IC. So being an IC first and getting that experience and then applying to another company a couple of years later as manager might work. Trying to pull thAt off internally would be tough, though, regardless of what the recruiter might tell you.
I am close to 40 but not 40 yet. I think I look like 35 (my wife just told me). But I believe they can figure this out from my resume.
Got it. So you meant it’s ok to tell recruiters upfront that I am willing to be considered for mid level role? And I believe this will increase my chance to get in?