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Why did you accept a lower level position? How long did it take you to get promoted back to your level ?

• sverhagen 8y ago
  >Why did you accept a lower level position? Isn't that clear by now? People want to get into the most famous companies. They think that by osmosis they'll be better engineers themselves, it looks good on the resume, they may be exposed to some brilliance, and, surely, once they're there, these companies will recognize their mistake and promote them into their rightful position. Not to mention that it's notoriously hard for people to self-assess their level, also because the coding gods of one company can be the low performers for another company. And personally, I have no reason to believe that Amazon, Facebook, Google or Microsoft are necessarily on either one far end of that spectrum.
  • kamaal 8y ago
    On a different note. SDE1s at some place Facebook get paid better than SDE3 at your other non-web companies. Also its a tad little foolish to throw away money for designation, in your 20s when you can save up and use that money for retirement later. Especially given the fact that SDE1 and SDE3 have to both write the same code.