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Re:How to pass the interview for software engineering roles ... by lambrospetrou on Sunday September 10, 2023 @05:50PM (#37460440)
I have actually seen several colleagues jumping into EM roles (Engineering Manager) with just a year of experience being a manager, or even from just being a team lead (technical leader, not manager).

In companies that have the first level of management at the same seniority level as the Senior Engineer, it's very doable.

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Re:How to pass the interview for software engineering roles ... by endtime on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:23PM (#37460736)
At at least some FAANG companies (Google and Meta), EM1 is parallel to L6/Staff.
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Re:How to pass the interview for software engineering roles ... by lambrospetrou on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:28PM (#37460764)
At Amazon you could become an EM1 by switching internally from SDE2 (L4 at Google/Meta). Also, in other companies like Datadog, Cloudflare, the first level of EM (used to be called Team Lead) is parallel to Senior Engineers.
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