I am a L5 SDE and have been in AWS for 3+ years. I always thought SDE3 was a level that needs extremely high tech bar and felt that I need to learn & improve a lot to feel confident enough to compete and perform well compared to other SDE3's. But now I feel that I was a fool who set unreasonably high bar of SDE3 for myself and never tried hard enough to get promoted. Now when I look at other people who are getting promoted to SDE3 I am not able to understand how are they making it happen and then able to survive because they are definitely are not performing at SDE3 level compared to the SDE3's I have worked with. Also saw a guy get promoted from SDE1 to 2 and then to 3 in a span of 4-5 years.
I don't know if I am under or overestimating the new SDE3's so genuinely want to understand what would it take to be a good senior engineer and be able to perform in any company not just AWS.
I have been a dev for more than 7 years and still feel if I get promoted to SDE3 here and if I join Netflix or Google or a good startup next (which I want to) I may not be able to compete or survive there as senior SDE.
Its not that I am a bad dev coz I have been top performer in my previous company every year which is one of the top companies in tech.
I have seen & worked with some senior sde's in the past whom I really admire for their knowledge and skills and would like to be like them but never like the once I see getting promoted these days here in Amazon.
I would also want to know how are SDE3 from Amazon performing in other companies ?
YOE 7
TC 220
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I guess some of us tend to over estimate and some underestimate. The key is constant caliberation.
Some tips
Gather informal feedback from team constantly. (Not just manager and can be a subtle question here and there).
Postmortem an artifact you created 6 months ago, and see what you have done differently.
Help others to be self-sufficient. I understood helping others improved my confidence.
I will calibrate.