I'm currently L5 SDE at amazon. I've been there for almost 2 years. After 1y4m I transitioned to management because my manager left. I'm doing well as a manager and might reach L6 within 1 or 1.5 years and then I can transition to SDE3.
I have an offer from Google for L3 (equivalent to SDE1) Engineer. The TC is higher than amazon.
Should I go? It's a downgrade in terms of progression, but I've always wanted to go to google. I think I'm going to transition back to SDE anyway, but I will be delayed a lot in google since I'll start over from SDE1.
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If your desire is to work at Google, it seems that on the current path you are building up more accomplishments to enter much higher later on.
SDE to SDM transitions are easier and very common. The other way - not that easy.
You're L5 now but Google L3 is more TC? Amazing