I haven’t worked in big tech but do levels not cover people doing basically the same thing with different competencies? I suppose people can fight over the lev

I haven’t worked in big tech but do levels not cover people doing basically the same thing with different competencies? I suppose people can fight over the levels but at least you could say SDE 1 gets $X SDE 2 gets $Y, and SDE 2 is just a more competent SDE 1.