> Promotions often, if not always, come with much larger workloads for only marginal pay increases. While this might be true in other industries, in big tech c

> Promotions often, if not always, come with much larger workloads for only marginal pay increases. While this might be true in other industries, in big tech companies like TFA is talking about SWE promotions come with rather large increases in pay. https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Facebook,Google&track=Software%20Engineer https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Facebook,Google&track... The author was trying to go from L4 to L5. Promotions are also backwards facing, which means at the point you get promoted you're already doing the larger workload.