A friend who worked in Airbnb told me he saw a lot of external-hire-L4 went to L5 in 1~1.5 years. I am also team matching with Airbnb, and talked to some engineering managers. I met two who entered Airbnb as L4 around 4 years ago and are engineering managers now. Is it usually this fast to go to L5 in Airbnb and also easier to become engineering managers? #tech #airbnb #career
Not directly related to ABNB but I’ve seen people @ Lyft and DD get to L5 in 3 years after doing an internship there. It seems to be very fast in post-IPO unicorns if you get on a team where you can really hit your stride.
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It’s totally up to you and your manager but yea there are many 1.5 year 4->5 promotions
Promoted l4 -> l5 in 1 year, but not a walk in the park. You need to deliver AND, perhaps, more importantly you need to find good, visible projects. Usually this requires luck (my case, many senior eng left, which “forced” me to take ownership quickly). This is probably why you see a lot of 3-4 yoe L5s at unicorns. More “low hanging fruit” projects & more people mobility (internally and externally). YMMV, just personal experience/observation :)
You have a good explanation of the quick promo in post IPO places! Thank you
Was you TC increased largely after promo? In Google, our compensation was increased a little bit after promo(3->4, 30K around) I got a snap offer around 370K, and was wondering if the TC of L5 grew internally in Airbnb can beat it.
2.5-3.5 years on average.
Bar is higher now.
L4 to L5 is a promo that happens on the org level and so the standards may depend on your org. There is a max time for that promo though, I think 3 years, before you start getting managed out.
Not true. The average is 3 to 4 years. No way they would manage you out that early.
With good manager and project 1 - 1.5 years is highly possible.
I heard from another friend in Airbnb, saying that, 1-1.5years is very hard now, except people all agree that you were down leveled or you did something having significant impact. Maybe 1-1.5 happens on external hire with 5+ YOE? Given I am only 3 YOE, I don’t think I am down leveled for L4.
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