> Isn't this a pretty sensible reason to be downleveled Kind of? It's worth remember that this would not have happened if he'd been a senior engineer at a FAAN

> Isn't this a pretty sensible reason to be downleveled Kind of? It's worth remember that this would not have happened if he'd been a senior engineer at a FAANG company (where people have gone from new grad to senior in 2 years). But big tech hiring is conservative and they don't have great insight to small or non-tech company engineering ladders (though they tend to be less strict for a variety of reasons). The cost of a mid-level promoted too soon is dangerous and so they tend to err on the side of caution, which they can because they pay so much.