Can't speak about Meta, but my team at AWS does incentivize more complex longer-term projects. Improving metrics and getting short-term wins is pretty good if y

Can't speak about Meta, but my team at AWS does incentivize more complex longer-term projects. Improving metrics and getting short-term wins is pretty good if you want to get the L4 (entry) to L5 promotion, but you will most likely not make senior SDE without having some more complex projects that shows you know how to collaborate with other teams and juggle requirements. That person would make L5 at AWS easily, but L6 will be harder without a somewhat lenient manager/reviewer.