I talked to a LinkedIn recruiter regarding interview. I am currently an E5 at Facebook, whose LinkedIn equivalent is Staff Engineer. (According to levelsfyi) My yoe is 5 years. However, she told me that they offer staff only to people with 8+ years of experience. She told me that if I do really really well in the interviews, they will invite me for additional interviews to test my leadership and mentoring skills. She has sent me a senior engineer role and wants me to apply for that. What should I do? Should I just apply or ask her to send me a staff engineer job? Is she speaking the truth or just lowballing me? Anyone from FB who went from E5 to LinkedIn staff? TC: 340k
It’s a step back in all dimensions. Enjoy no laundry and microsoft take over
I think you are clueless. Some but not all. Food, wlb, equal or better pay based on OP's TC even for srswe, better stock MSFT.
@ghcthj looks like you are fucking clueless. All your comments in this thread is complete nonsense. Linkedin has awesome benefits including great free food, laundry, and amazing wlb
Just tell the recruiter to go f*k ....
They are willing to arrange additional Staff appropriate interviews if you knock the senior interview out of the park, right ? Then what's the problem ?
Because Linkedin isnt worth that
Found a sore LinkedIn reject.
Depends on the track. It is not uncommon for inexperienced L5s (g & fb) to come in as Sr Swes to infra. Your TC is medium-high for Sr Swe range as well.
Levelsfyi shows 260k as TC for senior. Anyway, what’s the point of joining if I am getting down leveled?
Levels.fyi is not accurate. 320k as per your previous post is high 3rd quartile in lnkd for Sr Swe in infra, 4th being the highest. Lnkd's levels are screwed up. They lack a true L4 which is why high E4s and most E5s get stuffed into Sr Swes (if you look purely at TC). You may say that is because of MSFT stock performance but I know Sr Swes getting 330k offers right now. In any case, keep in mind that higher level doesn't mean anything if your TC doesn't keep up. Sr Swe and Staff comp bands have an overlap.
Tell her you're interested in the Staff Engineer role that's what you would like to interview for. You're down leveling anyway by going to LinkedIn.
The recruiter wanted to bring me in as senior but after nailing down the initial rounds, I asked them for staff, so they re interviewed me and invited me to staff onsite which I did well to. After the on-site they gave me some BS feedback like your code don’t have comments and extended a senior offer. I was bored af with my previous job so just took it. And now, the code base I’m working on is not even close to the quality of code that I wrote during the interviews. My work code base don’t have unit tests, no documentation, just spaghetti code for the most part. Now I’m contemplating on why the world is fucked up like this.
My friend with 6 years of experience is a staff engineer at LinkedIn
I know an eng 3 years out of undergrad that’s staff. Know another one 5 years out of ms that’s sr staff. Both infra. No other job experience, and no significant deliveries as far as I know.
Lol why you change tc from 320->340. Linkedin is unlikely to give you staff like how Google won't give you l5. People who got staff with 5 yoe were promoted within. I'd say push for staff but I doubt they'll give you it. Senior offer will be around 300k which means you should stay at fb.
? It's my first time posting on this thread. Must be someone else you've mistaken me for
that's common. you don't have the yoe for them to consider you a staff. you'd get downleveled at google too.
I know Google does that. But didn’t expect LinkedIn to do that. If that’s the case why should I even interview with them? Seems like a backward move to me.
And I think yoe is BS, at FB there are E6s with 5 year experience, E5 with 15 years experience