Currently an engineer manager in charge of 2 teams in a smaller company, interviewed with Facebook last month and was offered a level 5 engineer position because I did well in those coding/design sessions but not so in their management sessions. I have not been coding in the past 1.5 years so not sure if I can meet their performance review as an engineer, but I do want to switch to a bigger public company. Should I take the risk and accept this offer, or keep interviewing other companies? Have not tried other FAANG companies yet but to be honest not quite confident to get offers from them. Have not discussed compensation yet but according to online data level 5 comps is not going to be enough incentives compared with my current pay. Want to negotiation for level 6 but worried that performance will be even harder to meet. Heard from other friends there it’s quite busy no work life balance. Any suggestions are welcome, thanks!
What do you want to ultimately be doing? Honing your craft or inspiring a team?
Ultimately management track in a big company, for now not sure which way will lead me to there faster
Highly doubt you'll be able to negotiate level. Pay for L5 is pretty variable depending on a lot of factors though and can get quite high
I see reported data online range is 300-400k, is it possible to be higher than this?
Possible, but unlikely. And you’ll likely need another offer to hit the top end of E5.
What questions they asked in the management session?
I think if you passed E5 interview you will perform fine as an E5
I interviewed for their management position so only 3 rounds of tech questions, I’m guessing that normal E5 tech interviews might be harder, or maybe I’m just not confident about myself as they do...
Do management interviews also get the same old LC style medium - hard questions? Just curious.
LC medium, mostly
Current TC?
TC, yoe ?
YOE: master+8 years engineer +1.5 year of management experience. T.C. has not been discussed yet