What is the right experience level to be a level 5 engineer ( or lead engineer ) in a product based company?

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Dear PMs and aspiring PMs 

Every company has its own hirerchy and designation and definition of what PO, PM, BA  is and lot of ambiguity is there. Can we please share what is followed and what we know to clear some of that..

In HSBC, for some of the teams, not sure about all..
They hire for BA role, at AVP and VP level. In Agile working group role, they will be called PO. And VP+1 boss in UK or other markets would be called Product manager. 

In the Startup I am currently working. Role and designations are not clear. They have lead PM, they have principle PM. Generally in market lead= principal. 

Similarly in EY, they hire typical BA profile at senior consultant, and deploy at client site as Senior PO for some clients and senior PM for some. 

Let's share what you know and reduce the information assymtry.

PM hierarchy ambiguity

I am a Full Stack Engineer, with 5 YoE. I've been working at 12LPA for almost 2 years. In the current company I am in, I got from 56K PM (During Probation) 70K PM (After probation) and 1L PM (Increment of 30K after working for an entire year).

Due to the market conditions I didn't get any hikes, simply because the company wasn't making any money. 

Anyway, since I've started interviewing I don't know what to say as my expected salary. I know I am a quality engineer, my boss, and my seniors would agree. I just want to know what should be the salary for a above average engineer with my level of experience (5 YoE)

PS: I don't have a college degree, in fact I am a dropout, I hope it helps you guys make your guesses. Thanks!

I know I am undervalued but how undervalued am I ?

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Guys, I am in product domain having ~5 years of experience with overall 7 years of experience. At which designation, should I be working?

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Data Engineer Interview tips for 5 year experience employee?

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Is only Front end knowledge for a lead/senior engineer an issue for company switch/salary growth in India? Is Exposure to Backend needed? If yes which one to start with?

Is an l5 position at Amazon a good option to enter with 9.5 yrs of experience in a different tech stack? What's the experience levels vs hierarchy mapping at Amazon ? Is it feasible to switch to a dev role post joining as L5 ?

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I'm currently a Senior SRE with experience in cloud, ops, infrastructure, databases, consulting, security, etc. Also skilled and interested in management (people and product), customer experience, etc.

My immediate manager has suggested an idea of me becoming an Engineering Manager in a Cloud product team. I'll approximately have 7 YoE by then.

Senior folks in Big Tech, do you think it's a good idea to switch from an IC to Leadership this early in career? What are the pros and cons?

Engineering Manager at 6-7 YoE, yay or nay?

Total YoE: 6.5
Current role- Technical lead
B.tech

Good leadership qualities. 
Aspiration: to be an engineering manager, Not sure about Architect.
Career Background: full stack developer all my career, also Scrum Master role for 1.5 years(got excellent feedback).
Tried running my own startup on weekends but failed.
Current working as TL.

How do I take my career forward to be an eng. Manager in future?

Will MBA help? Or any other route?

Road to engineering manager?

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I have 6 years experience. My current base/fixed is 60 LPA. (I also got a 5 lakh bonus and 5 lakh of my ESOPs vested this year making my total vested about 30 lakh. So the total comp is 70). 

I'm being offered a senior engineer position in an early stage startup (as part of the founding engineer team). They haven't given an offer yet.

Being early stage, the emphasis will most likely be on ESOPs. How do I evaluate this and set my expectations? (If I were to switch to a mature company, I believe the hikes usually are between 15-20%? How does this work for early stage startups?)

Salary expectation at early stage startup

Hi fellas recently I have joined a company and i have been working with 18.5 lpa with 2.10 year of experience so wanted to know what I should pursue learning next to reach senior applications Engineer as currently im an applications Engineer

Tech stack - java backend 
Qualifications - M.Tech software engineering
I want to just reach 28 lpa by September next year with role of sde2 equivalent as i would be having 4 year of experiencel

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Hey grapeviners, I am a software engineer and earning pretty good, but I have always dreamt of becoming a product manager. I don't hold any MBA. So How do I transition from a software engineer to a product manager.

Software Engineer to a Product Manager

I'm a lead engineer at a small-mid Indian Saas company. 
Been at the company for more than 6 years (total yoe 8+) and used to like the company and culture, alway top performer.
Had been managing my team really well, mentoring them.. 
juggling multiple projects, reducing tech debt, improving developer experience.. 
and I enjoyed it.

Now the company is trying to transition my role to more of a technical product manager where I have to think about how to improve the product, new features, take customer feedback, understand business analytics, usage, adoption, iteratively improve and deliver value.

I'm not sure if I'm ready for this role. 
I hate this MBA shizz.

What should I do? Try to like this, work on it and ace it?
or let my management know that this is not what I signed up for..

I feel low at work because I'm not able to meet my expectations (let alone my manager's)

Role transition and lows due to that 🙄

I have just joined a new organization where I've joined their Platform Engineering- Developer Experience team. Here my team handles CI/CD, Platform management of the core engineering team interacting with the resources like database, queue etc because they can't contact the resources directly. So there is code involvement as well which I love.

The pay is good here as well. But in my past experiences I've worked mostly on core engineering. I have 5 years of experience. 

Should I look for change or Platform engineering is good and challenging as well? And would It pay more in future in monetary terms as well?

Should I switch the roles from Platform Engineering - Developer Experience

What should be the ideal salary range of engineering leader with 12 years experience ? Career growth has been IC, EM, SEM and now in the DE/HE with responsibilities to manage teams, forecast budgets,  define and execute technical roadmap. Pretty hands on when it comes to architecture, mobility and devops. If anyone could chip in the current market value with Variable and ESOPs that would be appreciated

Ideal salary range

I am a software engineer with 3 years of experience .For the first two initial years I was working as a QA in one of the good product companies with a very sorted work life balance .
I had recently switched to a BE role in a startup 
I am very much lagging behind here because of my QA background  ,the people here are very much talented and are great problem solvers .How do I reach that level ?
I have been  struggling to keep up with the pace here and finding it difficult to approach the tasks,even though i have been giving so much of time to work .
And the TL  in my team have a certain amount of expectations and hence they don't help according to that .(which i feel is fair)
How should I approach this  and level up here 
Anyone with a similar background and story please share your experience :) 
Any advice would really help

Need advice

Hiring for a bunch of roles for an early stage startup. Salaries of people who have been laid off is through the roof

2-3 years experience asking for 30-40l and while we chose not to judge the experience and spoke to a few of them, most of them are not even worth half of the pay. 

Many are jobless since last 2-3 months and none of them are willing to take a paycut of even 5-6L and are willing to stay jobless ( probably have a ton of savings )

Market correction is necessary.

Roles : PM, software engineers, generalists

What's wrong with salaries

If you are paid less, don’t extrapolate it on others. If they are willing to wait, let them. You should keep praying for “corrections”.

Is it possible to land a PM job in the current market if I have 2 months and aggressively look for jobs.

By Aggressively I mean, not just easy apply on Linkedin or even rather any org’s job board but actively sending cold emails/dms to founders, product heads and hiring managers and also trying to utilise professional connections. 

PM with overall 5 years of experience across Product (3 years), Marketing and Strategy/Business.

How hard is it?

I came across this role of Product Development Engineer for which the JD has everything an SDE does. Recruiter told that it is not exactly SDE. Also they pay like peanuts for 2YoE. Something like 11L. What's going on there peeps?

What exactly is this shit Product Development Engineer at Razorpay paying peanuts in salary?

I feel there is no light for this tunnel for many more months to come. 11150+ Applications for 1 Post. Can't imagine the level of competition.

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