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What 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
by fnbr 4y ago
What 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.