What’s scope of L5 engineer at Google, Meta, Netflix
How many L5s are there in a vertical team? Are L5s leading their own teams? Do they do coding or mostly leading? What does an average sprint look like? Do they create architectural diagrams? How much % coding, meetings, planning do they spend? What separates L6 from L5? #L5 #engineer #engineering #google #amazon #netflix #meta
Nothing too different than L4. Those levels are just to retain those SDEs
It varies a lot by team. L5s were mostly TLs (small or big team either way) years ago. Nowadays L5 promotion is easier so L6 is becoming the new L5 if you compare with 5 years ago. Now a lot of orgs doesn't allow L5 to transition to TLM, that is the most obvious indication of this transitioning.
Or I should say some low end L6 who leads less than 5 people (either direct reports or project impacted persons) is considered as L5 in the old world. Those L6 lead larger team (directly or indirectly) are just not yet promoted to L7. L6 is now becoming Amazon SDE 3, it is a very wide range role.
How does MS feel about you having a YT channel about SWE? I’ve seen Meta and Google straight get rid of ppl for this
You mean the "Tech Lead" guy? :) Let's just say - don't believe everything you see on the Internet.
The same scope that “Big head” had at Hooli in the first season.
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