I work in a FAANG at this level - but one of the expectations is "you lift the others up around you" rather than just handing out tasks, and the other is "you write the hardest parts of the system".
For me this can be something algo heavy with tight perf requirements, or setting up initial abstractions and architecture - it's a mix.
For me this can be something algo heavy with tight perf requirements, or setting up initial abstractions and architecture - it's a mix.
But I'm only coding about 30% of the time.