Hi. I joined meta as a new grad and worked for 3 years. I’m a 5 now and I want to move. However, I’ve only ever worked on Hack and JS and I’m in no Leetcode shape. Meta infra makes things so easy so I don’t really know how to ‘deploy’ or do shit or some of the scrappy stuff startup engineers are doing. Should I pick something up on the side to learn like more professional web development or mobile besides Leetcode? I feel like I don’t have much to offer in the broad market right now. Targeting exit in a year. TC 350K Thanks.
You can learn new languages on the job. Just Leetcode. Leetcode. Leetcode. Repetitive advice. But true.
Wait for E6 promotion
No! E6 is much much harder and not expected at Meta as E5 is terminal. Plus Meta is a sinking ship and is becoming more toxic by the day. OP should leave to another FAANG company, especially now with valuations down, he/she can get a nice equity grant to grow into over the years.
Takes some time to get into interview ready leetcode and system design shape. I know new grad to e5 in 3 yrs at meta is very common but i have doubts on if google would give 3 yoe l5
lol better start learning
Learn soft skills as a 5 (like mentorship, communication, leadership, etc), and practice/get better at them now while you’re at Meta. Then you’ll become more useful once you leave, and hopefully have good stories to talk about in behavioral interviews. Another option: just start interviewing right now and see what it’s like, for companies you generally don’t care about. The best interview practice is other interviews (this is especially true for behavioral/architecture). Last year I was in the same situation as you, I thought being too specialized in FB infra would make me less useful to other companies. However many startups/even smaller public companies want seniors who understand how big tech internal systems work, so they could reimplement it for themselves. It’s very valuable to understand how a big tech company operates from the inside.
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Join other big companies where deployment or setting up dev env is not required.