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I've got ten years experience at two FAANGs.

• arcticbull 4y ago
  Out of curiosity, what level did you achieve? This isn't a criticism, I think it would help color your perspective. [edit] For instance this is the kind of thing I'd expect to hear from like an E3/E4. An E5 knows what to do to get to E6 and understands the value. An E6+ would never have achieved the level with this perspective.
  • fdgsdfogijq 4y ago
    L6. I've just seen the pattern of a high performing engineer running a team of ten junior engineers. No more high experienced candidates needed over that one. This is on high TPS distributed systems. I've also seen two years of experience candidates writing code as good as anyone else. Domain specific for sure, took them two years on the team to get there. I've also spoken with many prinicpal engineers and think they provided no extra value over many other engineers. Its a level to aspire to, but most are just corporate strivers, many many people under them could replace them. These are on critical services.
    • zepolen 4y ago
      > I've also seen two years of experience candidates writing code as good as anyone else. I so so so severely doubt that. Two years of experience is barely enough to learn one of the most important experiences of all, maintaining your two year old code ;)
      • fdgsdfogijq 4y ago
        I see it everyday