Can someone explain the job of a sde3 at each company? I work for Amazon, and it seems sde3 = team lead / best engineer on the team. Blind tax tc 250k 3 yoe #swe #software
SDE 3 at Amazon indexes more towards a "tech lead" or Staff versus the L5/E5 at Google and Facebook are typically more high-level IC roles with less focus on mentoring and leading junior engineers.
So is sde3 the same as l6 and e6 at g and f? Or is like higher than l5 but lower than l6?
Amazon SDE3 is somewhere in between E5 & E6 in G & F.
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SDE 3 lands in between SDE 2 and staff. That implies your responsibilities will be more than SDE 2 but less than staff - to make it simple just assume you're gonna have to do staff level work without managing people or taking direct reports. At Qualcomm this is same as Lead SWE, and those folks are the most robust engineers in the team. You will be expected to work on multiple parallel tasks, juggle time efficiently between different tasks, help the team manager in planning ahead, mentor SDE 1 and 2 folks as per need, and produce timely results even if it means staying in late on your birthday. Needless to say you should be good at system design aspects that relate to your team.