This experience fits mine at Google too. If I had only pushed to start at level 6 my life would have been different. Instead I was level 5. My group was full of

This experience fits mine at Google too. If I had only pushed to start at level 6 my life would have been different. Instead I was level 5. My group was full of people at level 5 who wanted to be level 6. No one ever got promoted. I eventually left Google and have been principal and architect at other companies, like I was before Google. G did pay a lot.