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The thing about leveling is there's no standard.

In general, higher titles are more easily attainable at smaller companies. Senior at one company could be equivalent to intermediate at another or staff at a third.

Consequently, deciding where you fall at level-wise, is the job of the company you're interviewing at, not your own. Your job is to talk through, and accurately represent, the experience that you have, and their job is to assess that experience with respect to their leveling framework / matrix.

For reference examples, check out GitLab's [1][2], or progression.fyi [3] for a collection of others.

That said, I would agree with others in this thread on the junior or junior to intermediate guesstimation.

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/career-develop...

[2]: https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/

[3]: https://www.progression.fyi/




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