Recruiter reached out and ask to interview for l5. I asked for l6 but he mentioned that L6 requires experience at least 10-12. Level.fyi says something else. MSFT Senior maps to L6. L5 TC ranges is around 250k and in exception cases 280K. Is it worth trying? I have E5 and l5 interview scheduled at Google and Facebook TC 240K YOE 5
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L63 with 5 yoe. That's pretty good.
Most likely that recruiter only works on l5 positions, find another one
No, your peers will be 26 years old who has 2/3 years experience. You will be assigned to do things they can do better than you like manually clicking and pausing 50 times on screen with certain order ( if you make mistakes, you will trigger a sev 2 for some undocumented reason, and will be yelled at in next ops review meeting.
Some new grads get sde2 these days
Yes, but normally it’s grad school interns who crush it during the summer
Do not take the downlevel! It'll take you at least two years to level back up.
Amazon isn’t worth being downleveled at tbh. Push for L6 or continue with senior engineer roles elsewhere
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