Yep if you go on levels.fyi you can see that recent promos to SDE 2-3 make 100-200k less than external hires. They probably were testing new paybands to see wh

Yep if you go on levels.fyi you can see that recent promos to SDE 2-3 make 100-200k less than external hires. They probably were testing new paybands to see what stuck. The bleeding has to be pretty bad for them to make an announcement like this though, otherwise they'd quietly bump up pay/bonuses for their top performers.