In my experience, by the time you get to do a full round interview your chances are pretty high, about 50% in big tech.

It’s about 10% acceptance rate once you get the interview. I don’t know what stage of interview - HR, technical or behavioral/architecture interview. I’m in the interview pool for the last level.

E6 -> E7 at Meta is $1M (which sounds a little bit crazy tbh). Google L6 -> L7 is 300k, but their numbers look smaller than what I'm privy too. A generic Level 6 to 7 (staff to senior staff) promotion can easily be $500k at a tech company.

Hardly. Senior at Amazon is pretty prestigious. A Senior at Google is also a pretty nice title. In my experience smaller companies are more likely to give out the Senior title like it's nothing.

talk to their manager. If their manager doesn't respond you go to your manager or the manager's manager.

For sure, a staff engineer asking lots of question is "disambiguating" a junior engineer asking a lot of questions is asking somebody else to figure out his/her project. Which is kinda true in a sense, you don't give a super-vague project to an engineer who's just starting up for a reason.

We're programmed to take care of (human) babies. That's pretty fundamental to our species survival.

Those features activates the same areas of our brain that babies' faces activate.

Feeling that something is "cute" is the evolutionary way that our brain is using to make us care of our kids.

Put slightly differently, they look cute because we are all mammals and they are cute.

TBF sales didn't start dying

Lately AI = LLM (at least in popular culture).

Zoom on medium format? what's the point?

> It would maybe cost an engineer at Nest/Ecobee a day or two of work

I think you misspelled a _year_ or two of work. Especially with the scrutiny that comes with software written at a major corp like Google.