L5 - Mid engineer. Very wide band. Encapsulates anything between a level 2 engineer and a team lead at other companies. Can be expected to lead individual teams at times. Is considered a “terminal” position (there’s no expectation of a promotion past here)

L6 - Senior. Has the scope of what a Staff engineer would at other companies where you’re not only concerned with your team but others in the department. I think like 10% of engineers ever hit L6

L7 - Principal Engineer. You have like 1-2 of these per department. These are more like architects at other companies. About 1-2% of engineers ever hit this band.

L8 and beyond are for fancy hires and shit. Very few if anyone ever works their way up to those bands.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

So, where are L1-L3?

Are L3 student programmers?

L2 people who never coded anything in their life?

L1 are people who can't read? Like babies?

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

Non-engineering roles I think.

IIRC levels correspond to all employees across the company.

Yeah it’s weird and I don’t get it either.