Just saw this on another Chinese social media. Basically saying she went from L4 to L5 in Google from 2021 Q1 - 2022 Q3, so 3 halves. Is that even possible? Considering interview elsewhere since Meta is going down. Tc: 250k on this year w2. Should be 330 before stock crashes.
Ya looks like it. There was also an internal post in Meta about some girl from E3-E6 in 3.5 years. did a 4-5, 5-6 promo in back to back half. Of course, skip was also her friend 😂. but holyshit
Wow that is really sus. Damnnnn. Hopefully she will solve P = NP 😜
Wow I know a girl at Meta who basically did this. Joined as a E3 in 2017 and became a E6 by late 2020. She’s also Chinese. Wonder if it’s the same person 🤔
Kneepads?
It’s just luck. Nothing else.
And gender quotas…. When I was at google my department was criticized for not having enough female sr Eng and managers. That was fixed by doing some fast promos.
That’s not really out of the ordinary
It obviously is
L5 is SDE2.7, it’s doable
I did it, so definitely possible. I was down leveled and essentially was doing L5 work from day one.
I saw someone go L4->L5 in 6 months not sure how they managed it.
I know someone who went from E3 to E5 in ~3 years, partly in Stripe and partly in other companies. Communication is key, and a good accent helps a lot. I think being female also helps (I don't want to invite trouble with this). Need to constantly politically align yourself to good projects and good managers, ask to be promoted every year, be very joyful and shouldn't allow stress to show on face, talk to leadership about their dogs, keep leading projects without doing much, etc. I am not jealous at all, I learnt a lot from this person. She is definitely someone I would always love to have on my team.
Quite possible at Google given the rampant down leveling
Could be number of things 1) she was under leveled when joined 2) she got extremely lucky with projects, having good manager, no one else in the team is L4, lots of L5 and L6+ folks in the team, mentored bunch of L3s which is basically saying stars got aligned. But yeah, very rare to see this
So I went back and check her other posts. she joined as newgrad as E3 and promote with similar timeline. Super fast
So she got L5 in 3 years? Damnnn that's good. But yeah, she either got lucky or she's the next Jeff Dean.