After having worked at a FAANG and having friends who still do, the way I've seen it is that with your YOE to work basically solely as an IC with less mentorshi

After having worked at a FAANG and having friends who still do, the way I've seen it is that with your YOE to work basically solely as an IC with less mentorship responsibilities you have to be in a highly specialized, challenging area (AI, ML, etc.). If you're in a more common area like web dev, backend engineering, data ingestion, etc etc. then you're more likely going to have those mentorship responsibilities.