Google L6 vs L7 engineering manager role
Looking to understand the ground reality of how the L6 vs L7 Engineering manager roles differ in terms of day to day expectations. Let's forget the compensation differences aside for a minute (assuming they are similar, or don't matter) and just focus on: 1. Day-to-day expectations from the role 2. Ability to own and impact team charter 3. Work life balance
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From the outside you will be expecting to manage other managers, but it isn’t strictly required (but normal). Key hallmarks of the role are org design and being able to spin teams up and down as needed. Strategic roadmaps and proactively owning it without much direction from above. I’d say WLB isn’t bad but it’s largely dependent upon you more than the team TBH.
L7 is manager of managers. So you will have a much bigger responsibility. You need to lead managers, deal with multi year roadmaps, etc. how would to ensure org goals are aligned. And how do you manage these senior folks