He's looked at levels.fyi.
He even links to it from his resume.
His problem is that he thinks L10 is the benchmark to compare against, when the vast, vast majority of engineers (including many with decades of experience) would never make it to L10.
He even links to it from his resume.
His problem is that he thinks L10 is the benchmark to compare against, when the vast, vast majority of engineers (including many with decades of experience) would never make it to L10.
The vast majority of engineers will never make it to L10.
The technical/individual contributor track also has L8 and L9 Director/Senior Director levels. Sometimes it's referred to as a "Principal" level in Product Areas like Cloud, but there are far fewer L8+ people on individual contributor career ladders (i.e. tracks) than on management ladders.
L8 is considered the start of Google's "executive levels," where individuals at this level and above are privy to executive-level training, perks, etc.
Google Fellows are generally L10 (i.e. Vice President equivalent level), if I recall correctly. Jeff Dean would be a canonical example of a Vice President equivalent level, however Jeff Dean also ended up being a manager/organizational head of the Research Product Area for several years as a Fellow. Vint Cerf may be another useful example of a Fellow / Vice President equivalent.
(My statements here are from having personally done statistical analysis of career ladders and levels at Google and Alphabet as a whole)
L8 is director level. So L10 might be both fellow and VP, given that Senior Director exists so is probably L9
Because like L3 is 200k so I'm not sure if you're seeing people post 600k as a reference point or 200k.
Metropolitan areas with the highest employment level in Software Developers
Metropolitan area Employment Employment Location Hourly Annual
per 1000 jobs quotient mean wage mean wage
New York-Newark-Jersey City,... 119,010 12.53 1.15 $ 73.12 $ 152,100
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 96,590 84.60 7.75 $ 96.06 $ 199,800
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA 83,920 34.65 3.18 $ 87.13 $ 181,220