Your mileage may definitely vary, especially based on what kind of team you're in. Senior SWE at a small company was significantly less responsibility than Sen

Your mileage may definitely vary, especially based on what kind of team you're in. Senior SWE at a small company was significantly less responsibility than Senior SWE at Google. As a Senior at Google, I was doing almost everything you say a "small company" Senior does, aside from DBA work and sales calls. I suppose if you're just a cog in the machine of some huge org like Ads or Search you might be right, but a smaller product team might look a lot more like a small company than you might realize. There is a lot of extra overhead of various sorts, but I wouldn't say the responsibilities are significantly less.