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Well said as usual, PragP. My experience working in big tech is that the bar for actually getting an interview for the junior positions is actually relatively
by honkdaddy 4y ago
Well said as usual, PragP.
My experience working in big tech is that the bar for actually getting an interview for the junior positions is actually relatively low, and your standardized interview performance matters 10x more than the content of your resume. Some people apply for L3 out of college, some people after many years of experience. I’ve never seen someone turned down for “too much of the wrong experience”, what more often happens is that the ruts they got into from their previous job start to show and it affects their interview performance.
- fnbr 4y agoWhat I see happen though is people get downleveled. It’s hard to get senior at FAANG without big tech experience, let alone staff+. So if you spend your career somewhere else and try to switch to FAANG after, say, 10 years, you’ll end up getting down leveled. Now, you’re probably making more money, so maybe this doesn’t matter.
- mathgladiator 4y agoI went from CTO to SDE II, and it totally made sense. There's nothing wrong with being downleveled if you are playing a different scale game. There is a huge difference being a senior engineer working on a $5,000 system versus a $1,000,000,000 system.
- honkdaddy 4y agoYeah, similar story for me. "Senior engineer" at failed startup into Founder/CTO at other failed startup. Then L3 at Snap into L4 at G. No hard feelings whatsoever. We're all moving pixels and pushing buttons for money, I try not to get too caught up in the promo game; much more interesting stuff in life outside the screen.