2 YOE
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Received phone interviews from amazon, LinkedIn, Google, dropbox, snap, uber and a whole bunch of smaller companies. Everyone is ready to offer the new grad role(SDE1, IC3, L3), but no one is keen to offer a higher level (SDE2, IC4, L4). I tried to strong arm some of them into giving me a higher level by saying "if you offer me a new grad role, I'm not interested" but that didn't go in my favor.
How do I negotiate an interview for level two?
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There are people with 1.5 yoe getting l4 at those places and they were also working on impactful things. You're not as special as you think, and you don't deserve a chance if you didn't show a reason to get one.
You will be leveled based on your interview performance, just like everyone else.
How do you plan on doing your on-sites of you get past all your phone screens?
If you come in as an L3, youād have to fight for a promotion to L4, which may be hard to do within a year.