There's a few things here that are subtly wrong. > How promotions work is a committee of higher-level engineers (eg L7s consider promotions to L6) and will hav

There's a few things here that are subtly wrong. > How promotions work is a committee of higher-level engineers (eg L7s consider promotions to L6) and will have 10-15 packets to assess. These will get stack ranked by the committee. If you're above the line you'll get promoted. If you're not, you won't. Ruth's change just made that line a little higher. FWIW this is no longer true for a lot of orgs, and will likely soon be untrue for all orgs. Also fairly sure that stack ranking within a single promo committee was never how it worked. > That only applies to the salary plus bonus (since bonus is derived from salary) Currently, however management is on record stating that this will change in the future, since I don't know exactly how, I'm not going to speculate, but the intent is for equity to reflect the compensation regions in the US eventually.