I have not heard that, but they routinely downlevel people, which is probably a good enough proxy. If you assume some percentage of the people who applied at s

I have not heard that, but they routinely downlevel people, which is probably a good enough proxy. If you assume some percentage of the people who applied at say, L6 take an L4 offer, then you watch and see if they progress faster than people who interview for L4 and do fantastic, etc. I do believe there was a study at google that found people who were on the 'border', but had at least one interviewer rate them very high, did better than people who just did very well across the board.