YOE for FAANG-Tier Senior SWE
Senior SWE: Meta E5, Amazon L6, Google L5, Netflix L5, Airbnb G9, Uber 5a, Snowflake IC3, Databricks L5 etc. Please share your OWN experiences in the poll. For simplicity, please convert PhD degree as 3YOE add-on. #software #swe #engineering
What’s the point of this?
It tells me whether I am behind other people or not, and how much behind.
Micro benchmarking your career by 2-4 years gains you nothing but anxiety. Just try your best to be better than you were. Ain’t nothing all that special about the first 6 years of your career. You got 34 more years to do stuff.
What kind of dumb ass options are these
Do the YOEs have to be contiguous? Like, if I have 6 YOE across 3 companies, would companies still consider me for Senior? Or does that look too junior?
Should be accumulated
There’s a demographic swing as well. In India, you are looking at +2yoe for your poll winners in the states. (fe, 6yoe for an external L5 in states == 8yoe for an external L5 in 🇮🇳)
Not in Uber tho. A lot of up level in India because of shitty comp strategy
From new grad to senior <4 is fast and >6 is slow. Poll should have been 4-10 in single year increments
If I have to make a judgement about your skills as a senior swe from the poll options, you’ve already failed
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