Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year

Re:Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small te... by jll29 on Thursday August 28, 2025 @08:22AM (#45051288)

One of the problems is that large corporations have such complicated role structures, and another problem is that they are also different from all other large corporations. A third problem is that the compensation models are again vastly different. A fourth problem is that they change over time.

All of this means as an individual you suffer from extreme information asymmetry.

Even if you got two offers from two different FAANGs, it would perhaps be hard to figure out which one is better.

Has anyone defined any mapping tables between role names across Amazon, Meta, Alphabet etc. and figured out salary ranges for them in a public spreadsheet?

BTW, has anyone got a leaked (anonymized) copy of FAANG employment contracts so one can compare the various clauses across employers, and track changes of their standard templates over time? (I haven't seen this topic discussed much on here in the systematic way that it deserves.)

Given the developer community invented open source it is surprising that corporations have so far succeeded in keeping such obvious things relatively secret (compared to, say, the emails of Sarah Palin and Ehud Barak ;-).

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Re:Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small te... by zeckalpha on Thursday August 28, 2025 @08:40AM (#45051436)

levels.fyi has this

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Re:Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small te... by moandcompany on Thursday August 28, 2025 @03:10PM (#45055843)

Google and Meta/Facebook have generally aligned and numerically equivalent levels for the main Software Engineer and Engineering Manager ladders.

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Re:Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small te... by Anon1096 on Thursday August 28, 2025 @04:08PM (#45056499)

This is not really an accurate representation of FAANG hiring and job searching. In reality, there is a very very high amount of job hopping and also connections to people at other FAANGs (and there's also levels.fyi and blind) so we're well aware of comp structures, what employment agreements, levels, etc are across companies and how to compare then. There's very little information asymmetry in fact people go into negotiations with recruiters very well equipped, far better than at small companies.

> BTW, has anyone got a leaked (anonymized) copy of FAANG employment contracts so one can compare the various clauses across employers, and track changes of their standard templates over time

If this doesn't exist it's only because it's incredibly uninteresting. levels.fyi will tell you all you need to know. (also they aren't employment contracts, in the US we do agreements because we're at-will)

I've hopped multiple FAANG+s now across my career.

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