Hello,
Google and Meta (Facebook) are both about to interview me for E5 and L6. I have a PhD with 7 years industry experience (after PhD - 4 of them in Electrical Eng, 3 of them in Software). Meta did a "levelling" call and ended up not giving the E6 chance to me.. I have no idea why, I think they have a bios towards minorities, culturally how we speak may not be as loud or sound super confident but I am. Maybe cos I am not a white American man?
Should I push for E6 and L6 based on my YOE or just go ahead and interview for E5 and L5? Of course in a positive light, not mentioning about diversity... I know it will be harder to get level up promo after I join rather than before I join, just like corporate life.. #google #facebook #meta
Update: so many of you helped me with very valuable information with levels in other companies compared to Intel. Thank you for taking the time and respond with such care and good intentions.
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Stop giving yourself reasons to think you can’t accomplish something. What you’re doing is called self sabotage.
If you are really in doubt about racial bias then I suggest you look on LinkedIn to see who works at meta. I see a company made predominantly of foreign-born workers. Even the white people appear to be heavily comprised of 1st gen immigrants from Europe and Russia.
It might be worth mentioning this concern to your recruiter. With this evidence from the data they will surely consider this a very reasonable concern that any well-adjusted person would bring up.
The same way many System analysts, engineers at test even QA write some code but it’s still discounted if they decide to switch to SWE.
What’s your current level at Intel? How many other grade 8/grade 9 engineers you led as part of your biggest project? So we could help you understand where you map to.
But to answer your question, you should always push wherever is possible. Always aim for the moon.
Also too busy with low impact projects here at Intel so I could easily lead more if I wasn't busy with project no one wants to do.. (which is why I want to leave but by all means I didn’t mention this during the interview I mentioned the leadership part)