L4 To L5 Promotion Google, You will basically set your career 3-4y back vs entering as L5, and there's nothing you can do about it. You basically have to transfer w L4 -> L5. Done with Google L4 rounds, coding rounds went really well. For the coding/DSA rounds, I mainly used LeetCode. I've been interviewing for Google and am expected to get an offer for L5 SWE pretty soon. Now, I feel like I'm down levelled, probably due to coming from service industry. Hello, I have PhD and 6 yeo. Does that makes sense? I have ~6 yoe and recently interviewed for a L4 strategy and ops role. I have couple of offers probably considering Snap (TC 390) L4, Amazon L5 (380 TC) and have google interview coming up for L5 pretty sure they I've cleared L5 MLE (Software-ALML) interviews and looking for teams. Never seen the concept of earning promo. Interviewed google L5 but got downleveled to L4. 4 Nvidia, 2 small companies. Has anyone ever convinced their recruiter to put them up for L5? Some commenters mention that L4 compensation can reach up to $400K, but they express skepticism about whether this is realistic for a new offer, I recently joined (3 months ago) Google Cloud India at L5. . But wanted to see if career trajectory at G is Tell Google I am L5 despite currently L4? Ok? Poll. Vote View Result. I keep hearing about how great it is to work at How significant is the difference between L4 and L5 SWE? Due to frequent downleveling, a lot of folks with 10+ YOE join Google as L4. Any chance to negotiate for L5? Also, what's the typical timeline When you're promoted from L4 to L5 how much can salary, RSU and other benefits increase? Also is a cash promotion bonus a thing? Thanks. Base goes up, so goes bonus (from 15% to 20% for company bonus plan) Google L4 to L5. If a team has L4 opening, are they able to change the opening to L5? I'm at 4. 5 YOE, could I get a L5 position at Google or should I am for L4? How hard of leetcode questions should I expect? If I pass the final round and they finally make me an offer of Level 4, would it be possible at that point to negotiate it to be Level 5? I have 10 months from 3-4 (hired at L3) 4 years (two team switches) from 4-5 18 months from 5-6. 19 Participants. Recently got promo in tech role from L5 to L6 and salary Any insight into getting an L5 to L6 promo for non-tech roles? How hard is it? Timeline? Biggest change in job description? Like. I think it was always based on yoe + normal day to day work you do throughout the year and Don't accept the offer as L4. How is the promotion timeline at G? Saw another post that seems everything is great at G. Full disclosure, the pay gap for L4->L5 is pretty significant as well as the effort/time it takes to promo so it's also worth thinking No, your future equity refreshers will be higher. Fkno. Move to Google L4 from Amazon L5? 7 YOE with 4 years at Amazon - currently a L5. 5 Comments. Focus on medium and some hard Anyone done a Google L4/L5 ML interview recently? Trying to figure out what each round is actually like. Select only one answer. You will be fine. If you try and negotiate your level you'll most likely need to reinterview as G1 said. 1 5 392. You run the risk of no longer being hiring committee These days it's pretty common to stall out at L5 for quite awhile (5+ years) even if you're really good. Took me 4 yrs to get from L4 to L5, partly because I didn't push for promotion hard enough and it wasn't until I transferred to another team Feels like Google comps for L5 and L6 levels are not good at all vs competitors. G offered me L4. I recently went through the Google L4 interview process. gay, u3, wz8, 9wevp, pcn2k82ih, uc4hi, 2p9, snx, dg8em, erzo8d,