Thanks for your detailed response. 1. I don’t ‘feel comparable to a Google senior (L4/Level4, to use Google terminoloy) engineer’ - it is a fact that my role a

Thanks for your detailed response. 1. I don’t ‘feel comparable to a Google senior (L4/Level4, to use Google terminoloy) engineer’ - it is a fact that my role at my company is equivalent to that. If anything, I feel an imposter, having made it to my job with all the shortcomings discussed (Google L4 engineers can typically build software at scale easily, and definitely aren’t as uncomfortable reading code as I am). It helps that I am in extremely niche field, so cannot be directly compared with other canonical L4 types. 2. Your story of the shift from medicine to software and the thought-process is useful. Not entirely easy for me to follow given my immigrant status. Any minor job title/company changes trigger a new H1/greencard, somewhat jeopardizing my chances of staying here longer term. I am not whining - just making a note here, in case someone reading this has dealt with or seen similar situations being handled before.