Comment by raw_anon_1111

5 days ago

It’s way more than a “pay grade” for any company with real leveling guidelines.

This jibes with both my personal experience at BigTech, knowing the industry and various publicly available leveling guidelines. Sone are more granular

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/

The company I work for now has similar leveling guidelines, it’s also more granular.

But levels are defined by scope, impact, and dealing with ambiguity

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oh_my_goodness  4 days ago

Is pay grade. You can look this up.

  • raw_anon_1111  4 days ago

    So are you really arguing that tech companies that pay top of the industry don’t require that you demonstrate that you can handle responsibility that requires you to be able to work at a larger scope, impact and dealing with ambiguity and go through a promotion process with a promo doc?

    Are you saying that when you interview for one of those tech companies that they don’t level you according to your past experience?

    Yes I know the answers to all of these questions from both personal experience of interviewing and hiring at one BigTech company and ignoring outreach from another’s hiring manager who I had worked with in the past.

    (At 51, I would rather get a daily anal probe with a cactus than ever work at a large company again and I am damn sure not going back into an office)