Current Amazon L6 evaluating a move to Facebook/Google E6.
Distribution of SDE job family by level indicates that E6 at FB/G is ~10% of all SDEs. This corresponds to the distribution of L6 at Amazon. However, multiple blind threads indicate that L6 at Amazon does not correspond to E6 at FB/G.
My questions:
1. What job responsibilities for E6 at FB/G might not correspond to job responsibilities at Amazon L6?
2. Does E6 at FB/G report to M1 or M2 or Director? (I am guessing mostly M1 sometimes M2, but wanted to check)
Any insights would be helpful.
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Btw E6 = M1 at FB.
Amazon's SDE3 level is too broad. Newly promoted SDE3 are matched with E5s at FB and tenured (being SDE3 for 2-3 years) are matched with E6 level.
By tenured, I would also mean that you have atleast 8 YOE in total, since high levels like E6 require atleast 8 YOE.
Regarding the job responsibilities, yes, E6 at FB has the same responsibilities as an SDE3 at Amazon.
I think this might also depend on the org's bar on promo, since Amazon is a huge company with different groups run differently.
Don't go by distribution and percentage, Amazon is bottom heavy versus other companies tends to have lot less college hires. For instance, FB has less than 10% of SDEs with less than 2 years experience versus Amazon 40%.
At FB, E5s are expected to drive Roadmap, project schedule, run day to day execution, handle customer/cross team questions, onboarding and ramping up new hires, and tons of 1:1s with team mates / cross-team. This is mostly done by SDMs at Amazon. Once you go to E6, you are doing this for multi-team level. On top of that, you still have to do oncall and your own deliverables.
E6 at FB is similar to your top layer SDE 3s which are generally reporting to L7 or an L6 with larger scope/multiple-teams.
I interviewed for L6 @ G
The hiring committee did not even consider me for L6
I was not able to meet the bar for L6
I got in as L5 though