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This have been so far my experience. The L5 on my team, was L5(L4 at Google scale) at Amazon, couldn't get the promo, then interviewed with us , and got L5 with
by masterof0 5y ago
This have been so far my experience. The L5 on my team, was L5(L4 at Google scale) at Amazon, couldn't get the promo, then interviewed with us , and got L5 with TC at the top of the bracket. I know is just one data point, but I have heard of similar stories.
- amzn-throw 5y agoThat could also be based on a difference of expectations in skills for a job family at Google vs. Amazon. An Amazon Sr. SDE (L6) is expected to have strong leadership skills, which means interpersonal tech lead abilities - including mentorship of others, communication with stakeholders, etc. This person may not have had the abilities or interest in having this so they went to Google which seems to focus exclusively on leetcode-esque abilities. (My data is ~5 years stale, but I interviewed with Google a few years back and didn't get a SINGLE "behavioural" interview question, or anything about my prior experience. It was 100% "solve this problem on a whiteboard").
- alienthrowaway 5y agoHow many interview stages did you go through at Google?
- masterof0 5y agoMaybe, but I will take his TC at Google over a L6 TC at Amazon any day, talking from the experience of being at Amazon, and seeing people with string LP evaluations and EE performance getting only a 3% comp boost, so yeah.