Yes, at perhaps five of the world’s most elite software companies, they have pay tiers that theoretically scale with experience. Setting aside the fact that mo

Yes, at perhaps five of the world’s most elite software companies, they have pay tiers that theoretically scale with experience. Setting aside the fact that most companies don’t have this, here’s a protip: count the number of engineers at each tier. People don’t get automatically promoted to l7 just because they spent years grunting at l6. It scales with impact, and opportunities for impact as an IC are fewer and farther between than for managers.