Just to let you know I don't have any prior experience in tier 1 companies, but have plans to target L6 (levels.fyi) in any of FAANG or tier 1 companies. Total experience: 13 yrs What would you suggest for me to prepare in order to succeed in this? Current actions: leetcode, reading tier 1 engineering blogs for system design.. Also how could I compensate missing brand experience, any open source projects to contribute to?
What kind of system design blogs are you reading? Links?
Compensate missing brand experience by earning TC $$$$$$$
TC alone is not good right, i hope they expect handling large scale projects in prior experience which is hard to compensate
It's a chicken and egg problem. It's actually other way around, If you know how to handle large scale project then you get good TC. You don't need to be in FAANG to learn that.
Experience isn’t about brand or company you got it at. L6+ is all about design and behavior. Sure, coding matters too but design has to check out.
Compensate missing brand experience by getting Sr. staff or Principal titles.