u/illustrious_feijoa wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
You're not wrong, but why even use FAANG as a reference point when the vast majority of bootcamp grads don't end up in FAANG? When people here talk about mid-senior roles, I know they aren't talking about L5 at my company, and that's totally fine. These Codesmith projects are le
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
The reason I care so much is because I work with people aiming for FAANG and top tier jobs and a number of people come from Codesmith and we have materials on levels incorporated so people can learn how to navigate levels at these companies.
I totally understand how most bootcamps grads realize the levelling at their first job is different from FAANG but Codemsith is the exception where people come in wanting Senior FAANG roles because one person at Codemsith got a Senior role at Google and it's a whole process to explain that that role was entry level - not Senior and some amount of disbelief because Codesmith said it was senior.
Pragmatic Engineer just wrote about levelling today in an amazing post - with the subscription fee: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/what-is-a-senior-software-engineer