u/_wine_bout_it wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I'm very biased because all junior people I know who were under leveled and out performed had amazing careers and received disproportinately large stock grant bonuses, and the people who were over leveled were managed out or fired within 1 to 4 years, had no career progression, a
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I stand by it for FAANG companies. It's why they almost always round down levels if someone is in between.
At a bank, or non-tech-focused decent company, it might matter less and you might not plan to stay for a long time, and you don't have the possibility of making millions of dollars following this.
Eric at Codesmith tells people that mid level worse companies are better than entry level FAANG jobs because FAANG companies make you do all the grunt work. And that's the thing I thing I'm pushing back on as I believe the exact opposite and can back that up for FAANG companies.