Facebook people. how strict is the promotion trajectory requirement.
Dec 26, 2016
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e3 to e4 in 24 months. e4 to e5 in 33 months. is it really strict. is that why lots of fb people leaves around 2.5 years if they got stuck?
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What would be the ratio of people getting above "meet", can someone share?
Same for IC5. It's a terminal level. No promotion expectations.
I think it's been shared internally on percentage that meets or above, but I don't know what it is. You could shoot an email to your HRBP and ask.
There's actually a comp strategy to avoiding promotions. You can exceed or greatly exceed (or even redefine) without technically meeting the requirements of IC6. Do this for a few cycles and your raises and grants will start to be pretty sizable. You can move well outside of the IC5 band this way. Promoting to 6 could cause you to drop down to consistent meets all, which moves you through the salary band much more slowly.
After a few years of exceed at 5 (cause there's no requirement to promote so you can do this indefinitely) you could be making more than most 6's.
Requires some agreement from your manager not to put you up for a promo during calibrations though.