For the past 2 years, we've been obsessed with a simple question: how can we accelerate career growth for software engineers? We’ve talked to hundreds of engineers directly while building Taro, and we observed the same confusion repeatedly: how do I get to the next level? So, we started aggregating performance review and promotion data with promotions.fyi: The waitlist is open now, and we'll be live in early April for all signed up users. We’re hard at work to make this jam-packed with value: 🧐 We’ll cover the basics: when performance review happens, rating breakdowns at each level, and the promotion process 💪🏽 We’ll also share insights for each company, with advice from engineers at various levels I’m very excited that we nabbed this domain 😊 If you want to contribute details or tips about performance review from companies you've worked at, shoot me a message! We're excited to answer questions and hear your feedback. Thank you for stopping by!

Hey everyone, I'm one of the cofounders behind this product, and I have a story to share on why we're building promotions.fyi. I joined Meta back in 2017 as an E4, which is a mid-level engineer. About a month into the job, I found an internal post asking if it was true that you needed to get promoted from E4 to E5 (which is senior) in 3 years or get fired. This sounded unreasonably cruel, so I dismissed it. However, I went to my manager to be sure. In our 1 on 1, he confirmed the policy, which is called "up-or-out". At Meta, Junior engineers [E3] need to get promoted to mid-level [E4] in 2 years and then progress from E4 to E5 in 2.75 years. I was shocked. My recruiter and the rest of my interview panel didn't tell me this. It wasn't in any of my hiring documentation. I felt completely blindsided. This is the information we want to make accessible to the world with promotions.fyi. There's all this more hidden institutional knowledge about what it actually takes to succeed at these top companies, which can also really affect whether or not you join it to begin with. Everyone deserves to have all the possible tools they need to succeed on their job. We're excited to work with all of you to make that happen.

Rahul Pandey

promotions.fyi

Maker

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