Software engineer II, for example. It’s a title and salary range (sometimes with an adjustment for location). A leveling question is a promotion question: you

Software engineer II, for example. It’s a title and salary range (sometimes with an adjustment for location). A leveling question is a promotion question: you believe that you deserve to be at a different level and this a different pay range. A additional wrinkle: When a company initially does leveling, there is a lot of jockeying for the right one, and not everyone may quite fit (a lower level than your salary implies).