I interviewed and got an offer for a L4 software engineer position years ago. What should I expect differently for L6? Will the coding be harder or easier? How about leadership questions or system design? Anything else if I were to interview for an ML focused role?
Lol yes, I’d assume any interview question for an L6 role would be substantially harder than that of an L4
Actually job responsibilities change quite a bit at higher level. I would expect an interview more focused towards leadership and system design. Coding is better suited for people out of college (or something like that)
Well yes but they still have coding interviews. If you are interviewing for an engineering role, then you are still coding at the core.
What you don't know- you're really interviewing for L5. Good luck not getting down leveled.
Expect 2-3 coding and at least 2 design questions on top of the usual leadership and impact and etc question. You must ace them all to be considered L6. If you don’t get a strong hire from the design questions, you will not get L6. Google doesn’t downlevel. It’s the interviewers who have to see enough signal from you to prove you are L6 material. Good luck
Definitely not true at all on down leveling- I interviewed in an area of my domain expertise for a team with a direct analog to my current role, with strong leadership interview feedback, and strong hiring manager recommendation (had previously successfully interviewed with that team). Still was down leveled to L5. I explicitly communicated I wanted L6 interviews and I did have the structure you described above for my interview day.
Can confirm RoidRage’s experience is norm at G, as I worked there for several years. You have to be extremely special in an area they want to invest in for them to hire you at the level you want or for them to promote you within. Otherwise, they don’t care
I believe you would be offered L5.
Don’t bother. Not worth it
Why?
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