You should double check your current scope and scope expectation of your intended level, a lot of times tenured seniors from smaller company get brought on as E4/L5 mid level engineers because their job function and scope are much similar to their previous senior capacity.
However that being said, what snap said is right and 200k is entry level in MCOL/HCOL so the world is your oyster. If you can crack E5/L6 it should easily go up to 500k+ rn
Awesome thanks for that perspective. I have meetings with Meta, Amazon and Uber next week. Reason for my post was I'm not really sure where I would fall into one of those companies, having never worked at global scale
When I mentioned scope it was less of where you deploy/where your product gets released and more of scope of your own responsibilities. Are you a SME your team depends on? Do you come up with multi-year projects and deliver through others successfully? Do you coordinate with other teams and get buy-in from them when they have to commit resources towards your teams' quarterlies/annual okrs?
All of that being said, meta amazon and uber will level you according to interview, so shoot as high as you can and they will readjust if necessary
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However that being said, what snap said is right and 200k is entry level in MCOL/HCOL so the world is your oyster. If you can crack E5/L6 it should easily go up to 500k+ rn
All of that being said, meta amazon and uber will level you according to interview, so shoot as high as you can and they will readjust if necessary