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Background: I've worn the hat of an SDE as well as an SDET (internships, full-time). ~6 YOE. Currently an SDET, Team Lead. I'm comfortable parsing through backend services, building them from scratch (have done that at one of my previous companies). The only thing I haven't done fully on my own is coming up with a design. I can read through the design documents, weigh in where there could be scalability/reliability issues, debug any issue when things break in production and I feel I bring a lot of value to my development team. Now, here's my dilemma - I've been getting interview requests for Senior SDE, mostly. And I do feel it's time to choose to either remain as an SDET or make the switch to SDE. A lot of the recruiters are looking for "% of the project I designed/architected" - which of course, is something I didn't do. I've been the bridge though with some of the test frameworks I've built. Questions: 1. How do I spin the narrative? Or is it worth spinning (i.e. developer productivity, quality focused etc)? 2. Should I just talk about the work I did and be forthcoming with my experience and desire to try SDE work? 3. Should I ask them to consider me for lower levels on my own (i.e. like E4)? I’m prepping LC and using DDIA. Have an AWS Solutions Architect cert as well. I do feel this sense of guilt if I try to narrate some of the designs that the dev team made (which I did play a role in, but coming up with a design was all them - I do know the design and the trade-offs, but it's not my own). Any advice for a (potentially) lost soul? TC: ~270K, not at LogMeIn #uber #roblox #tesla #amazon #engineering #software #sdet #sde
Good luck
Can you refer me for sdet position if you are leaving?
Here is what I have seen people do. Switch to SDE within same Company. Then LC + System design. And then move to E5 equivalent of Meta.
This is the way
Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of. Unfortunately, that is a huge up-hill climb for me. I'm in one of the companies where team changes are severely frowned upon and needlessly hard.