Can you please explain why a senior director at other(such as comcast or startups) companies is mapped to a senior manager in Faang, or why a vice president is mapped to a director at Faang? Does the mapping from oracle to Faang work? Oracle director to Amazon/Google director?
It does not. Unfortunately faang (esp Google and Facebook) have a much higher bar for directors than anywhere else.
A higher bar on political skills
They do that ppl join in spite of this.
The short answer is: faangs downlevel, because they can: supply-demand. The rest of the BS reasons given above: scope, hiring bar, etc. are just that: BS.
And why is VP at bank equivalent to L4? Titles mean nothing. They compare workload, responsibility, and comp.
Everyone knows a VP at a bank means nothing. Banking gives out the VP title like candy 🤣 You can be a VP in banking and have zero direct reports.
Director at Oracle typically comes at L5/IC5 to Google/Meta (3 levels below director). They still make more money and have more responsibility.
Instead of level mapping, they generally find the scope of the role you did before and map it to where it fits at that faang.
Job titles in the general market mean approximately nothing.
There are two ways of looking at it — either that FAANG down-levels like crazy, or that other companies hand out lofty titles like crazy. Truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Typical the workload and area of responsibility for a Director at Google, Meta, etc. is on par with a VP at a non FAANG. Another thing is comp bands are usually different.
I think only the pay part might be applicable to what you said