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I think there are more than a few anectodes. This is not true for google but fb promotes engineers really fast from 3-5 and 6.

3-5 if you don't get promoted after a year and a half or something they mark your packet expectation is you go from 3-5 very quick on average and even faster at the tail.

I did 3-7 in 6 years at Google and it was the fastest in the larger org with >500 people. You can do 4.5 at fb easy.

And yes at fb 7 years would rack lots of engineers 1+ m, even assuming modest gains.

If you don't believe it, it's your choice but not all companies treat employees as average. Google optimizes for average, fb rewards high performers...




Like I said, it's not a quantifiable statement, so I don't believe it or not believe it. If you're saying that FB promotes people faster, yes, I can believe that--younger companies generally tend to.

I am quite skeptical that the median time for a new-grad hire to get to L7 at FB is 7 years or fewer, but I guess this is something that we could answer with some weekend scraping of LinkedIn. ;)


You can't, not for facebook - everyone has the same title for ICs.




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