Is it common to be downleveled?

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Dec 16, 2020 3 Comments

I am not in the market for a new job anymore. :)
I am a SWE who transitioned to SRE about a year ago, although I'd been working for companies too small for a dedicated SRE/Devops person and doing SRE things for about 5 years. Total YoE is 12 years.

I applied at several much larger companies than I've worked at before. Everyone wanted to downlevel me for SRE positions. I officially only have 1 year of SRE experience, but a ton of backend/platform SWE experience. Did I sell myself badly or should I have expected to be downleveled for only 1 year of experience with the SRE title?

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  • Salesforce
    deadly.

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    Adobe
    deadly.
    I have seen only one case of downleveling in my 12 years old in India.

    But i had a chance to work oin SRE team but on the development side and I actually got upleveled. Developer to SRE should not lead to downlevel.
    Dec 16, 2020 0
  • Rakuten / Ops
    tooQ10

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    Obligatory: YoE 20, TC 43k. Such is life for us non-SWE office monkeys!
    tooQ10
    My company, Rakuten, downlevels people.
    Dec 17, 2020 0
  • Amazon / Other
    animals

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    DC Government
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    animals
    have u heard someone got demoted in tech?
    Dec 16, 2020 0