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I'm more curious how she went from no experience SWE to Senior SWE and a team lead in 2 years. I'm not saying its not warranted but I've seen people working at
by esturk 8y ago
I'm more curious how she went from no experience SWE to Senior SWE and a team lead in 2 years.
I'm not saying its not warranted but I've seen people working at Google for several years and not get the Senior title.
- projektir 8y agoGoogle and other FAANGs don't really seem to promote well or quickly...
- marcinzm 8y agoSome companies promote quickly. Generally companies I wouldn't want to work at since to me it indicates that they hire a lot of junior people, and have trouble retaining or hiring experienced talent (so they throw promotions at people as a stop gap).
- hopler 8y agoWhen the team size doubles or quadruples in 2 years, someone becomes a lead. At startups, 2yrs experience is usually when "senior" begins. Employers can pay in $ or in titles.
- opportune 8y agoI know a couple people who are tech leads at large, well known companies (Facebook, Amazon) with 2-3 years of experience. But the one that I know better than the others is a workaholic obsessed with things like perceived "prestige". My guess is that they both were put in charge of some project that was a homerun and thus got allocated more head count, so they were logically chosen to keep leading the project they helped create.
- chewbacha 8y agoIn some places, "Senior" is the second tier with other titles coming after. I once worked some place that was: * SWE * Senior SWE * Staff SWE * Principle SWE I think it depends a lot on the company and what terminology they use. Even at my current company, "senior" is not the highest level.
- Zaheer 8y agoYes these titles vary widely at different companies. In fact, that's exactly why we build https://www.levels.fyi https://www.levels.fyi - We don't have CircleCI on there yet but hope it helps.