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What is L5?
by the_clarence 8y ago
What is L5?
- mdasen 8y agoL5 is one of Google's internal levels. They're putting it there to let people know where they were in Google's hierarchy and they note that it denotes Senior. From what I know, people generally start at 3 right out of school.
- antognini 8y agoTo expand a little bit, you usually start at L3 as a fresh graduate, and then are expected to be promoted to L4 within ~2-3 years, and then L5 after another 2-3 years (although it could be shorter). L5 is considered a "terminal" position, in the sense that once you get to that level you're no longer expected to get promoted. (L3 and L4 are, by contrast, more "up or out", where if you don't get promoted after long enough you can get fired.) I actually met an L5 engineer at Google who had been there since 2002. Promotions to L6, L7, etc. start to get exponentially more difficult.
- the_clarence 8y agoWhat about L1 or L2?
- acchow 8y agoGoogle Engineering doesn't have L1 or L2 (you could consider interns as L2)
- twiceaday 8y agoThis is no longer the case. L4 is the new coasting position.
- bernardrubble 8y agoAhh, google finally succumbing to the mediocrity of being huge and boring. Must be nice for management to not have to even try and develop employees beyond L4.
- Zaheer 8y agoGoogle's internal leveling codes. I made https://www.levels.fyi https://www.levels.fyi exactly for questions like this :)
- quest88 8y agoSenior Software Engineer.