I will be having onsite with FB soon and now keep practising on leetcode and working hard on system design questions because friends mentioned a good system desgin round will add points for leveling. I’m now L5 at Amazon with 4 YOE in total. Is it true or any suggestion on prepration to get a higher level than E4 if i were offered?
Doubtful you'd get a senior-equivalent offer at most places with 4 YOE, even with stellar interview performance (as you're not already senior at Amzn) Most likely you'd just get a juicier comp package
Thanks for the comments. I personally don’t think YOE should always be the dominating factor to see when comes to offering a job or promotion. I have heard or know engineers get promoted offer in their interviews, they happened at Amazon Facebook google. But I’m asking about E5 at Facebook, so it might be true they have set a hard ceiling for you based on YOE even you did as well as other qualified senior candidates.
Fb will more heavily weigh your job experience and projects, and also your design rounds if you want an E5 offer. This means being able to drive and deliver projects that greatly impact your immediate teams goals.
Facebook promotes super fast. Take the e4 offer and if you’re really good you’ll get e5 within a few years
Thanks for the comments. Yeah, I know friend of the same YOE are now e5 or even new e6 there
@op. what did you end up doing?
Ask the recruiter perhaps?
I will ask when I sync with my recruiter about onsite schedule. But I just want to get some ideas before that see if I should even ask about this question..