Is it interview performance, prior experience , prior company, educational background, experience in diverse technology or ability to manage/mentor people
Politics and your manager
Let's imagine a fair world.😂
Along with most knowledge about product team owns but sometimes this is optional depending on how superior you’re in above two
Design skills, leadership, patience and ability to mentor junior engineers, breadth and depth of experience, confidence, consistent performer.
Leadership skills and politics
Not knowing how to code, poor design skills.
That's some serious amount of salt right here. Tell us more
All you mentioned. Doing well in the interview is a must. If you have everything else, but don't perform well during the interview, you won't get it. So consider this AND one of these factors: If you have a PhD (in the relevant field) with only 1 yoe G/Fb offer you a senior position. So that's the education factor. If you don't have a PhD, but have like 4 yoe in FAANG you still can get a senior position. That's the prior company factor. If you have lots of yoe you can get a senior position. That's the prior experience factor. If you have experience in a specific field (a specialist) you can get a senior position. That's the specialty factor.
I've seen a lot of PhD with 1 how getting L4 offers at Google, bit L5. PhD seems to count for about 4 Yoe for leveling, so it seems like Google usually needs about 3 YOE + PhD for senior (L5). Google is notorious for down leveling though, so they may be the worst.
Updating LinkedIn profile with the word Senior
In our company senior takes responsibility for the problem and not the implementation only. But our senior is not as strong as google senior for example
None of those, it's self esteem. You are senior when you think you are
The ability to say no to clueless managers and proposer a better solution
Well I am Mexican and that makes me a señor engineer.
C mamo
You love it when someone calls you senor