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by jeffbee 1010 days ago
> There's no such thing as downleveling or demotion at Google

There used to be. In the “member of technical staff” era, most new hires were down-slotted within a year.

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Yeah, there was downslotting back when L5+ came in as MTS.

They got rid of it. I think they changed it to "everyone comes in at L3/L4, and if you're good you'll rapidly get promoted to your true level" around 2012, and then sometime between 2014-2020 it changed to "sure, you can come in at L6+ and we don't really care if you're incompetent".