Worked at a high level at FAANG, meetings with L8+. Half of the directors/VPs are just there to keep a cool head and make a few decisions. Directly sat in manag

Worked at a high level at FAANG, meetings with L8+. Half of the directors/VPs are just there to keep a cool head and make a few decisions. Directly sat in management consulting meetings with C level at american express. They just made decisions by picking from one of three options on a slide deck. Also L7 in faang is not that high level, you can still be an individual contributor.