When I used to work at AWS, L7 was big f**king deal. As an L4/5 I was impressed by every L7 Principal I worked with.
Fast forward to now, I see posts on blind claiming Amazon L7 maps to Google L6 which baffles me. Is that true or just Blind’s preference for Google?
Are there cases of Google L6 moving to Amazon L7? And more importantly, when Amazon L7 moves to Google, do they get Google L6 or Google L7 ?
UPDATE: For folks talking about difference in starting levels (Amazon L4 vs Google L3), note that L8 is director at both Amazon and Google. So the levels do converge as you move up
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High end L7 is Google L7
I’d expect an Amazon L6 to map to Google L5.. but Principal used to be huge deal during my time. Is that still the case at Amazon?
Amazon L6 is way more difficult, very few people can go from L4 - L6 within 5 years.
Principal is still a huge thing in Amazon, even it is not like it was in 2017 (when they made it a tiny bit easier) but it is still very difficult, from ratio perspective Amazon L6:L7 is about 14:1.
Consider L4:L6 ratio is about 7:1 or 8:1, and a “healthy” org should have roughly same L5s as L4s, on average an L7 engineer at Amazon advises an org with about 100 L4s 100L5s and 10 L6s. In contrast, one of my college friends led a 4 person team project and got to L6 at Google.