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Huh, that’s an interesting point. Personally, when I see “L9 IC”, I assume that the person is an extremely eccentric genius who likely does not work especially
by el_benhameen 4y ago
Huh, that’s an interesting point. Personally, when I see “L9 IC”, I assume that the person is an extremely eccentric genius who likely does not work especially well with a team. But I’m not an L9, nor do I work at a FAANG, so who knows.
- log_n 4y agoThose kinds of people are generally stuck at a lower level. L7/8/9 is very much a political game. To get there (generally) you need to make your entire org/company look very good, and generally to make your team look good you need to work well with them so that you can convince them to work on the high impact projects that you identify.
- UncleMeat 4y agoIt is nearly impossible to have the impact required for these levels by building a thing yourself. These companies are too big. You can't just say "I built a better database" because even if you somehow did to that you'd need to convince the company to shift to it. L9s are usually having industry-wide impact and that involves a shit ton of just talking with people and convincing them that your path through the forest is the right one. You need the right ideas, but you also need the skills to convince a whole bunch of smart people, often at other companies entirely, that your ideas are right.