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A friend of mine, who works at Amazon as a principal engineer, also mentioned that Amazon had been inflating title too. Per his words, Sr. SDE in Amazon used to
by hintymad 4y ago
A friend of mine, who works at Amazon as a principal engineer, also mentioned that Amazon had been inflating title too. Per his words, Sr. SDE in Amazon used to be a big deal. People usually got such title after > 10 years of grinding, and they would be happy to stay in that title forever. Principal engineers were treated like demigods. There was even a page on Amazon wiki that cautioned new principal engineers not to think of themselves so. But now engineers expected to get promoted to principal in three years after being promoted to L6. An L6 engineers could be promoted to L7 if they could launch a product.
- urthor 4y agoWhile that's true, what's also true is that the money in the industry has quadrupled since that era (stock options lottery aside). Yes, those "old style genuine seniors" in the industry have had their titles inflated up the waxoo. I don't think they're that unhappy about the change.
- ZephyrBlu 4y agoAs a young engineer, I expect to get promoted quickly because that's what I see happening pretty commonly for other people. The kicker is that most people who get these titles quickly don't even seem to be exceptional. It's pure inflation. It's likely I'll end up with the title of Senior with ~3 YOE at a big tech co. I think it's extremely dumb and feel like Senior and sometimes Staff titles are often undeserved, but it feels like if you don't play along you're just falling behind.