Comment Comment by sudeepj The key question imo is:Was he still subjected to same interview process where he has to prove his coding skills inspite of being prominent open-source contributor?As for L5 level based on anecdotal stories anything beyond L6 is hard in Google.Search for "Crossing that barrier to L6 is getting more and more difficult with time" in [1][1] https://debarghyadas.com/writes/why-i-left-google/The article is from 2019 and its not that old. parent sudeepj 5 years ago
Was he still subjected to same interview process where he has to prove his coding skills inspite of being prominent open-source contributor?
As for L5 level based on anecdotal stories anything beyond L6 is hard in Google.
Search for "Crossing that barrier to L6 is getting more and more difficult with time" in [1]
[1] https://debarghyadas.com/writes/why-i-left-google/
The article is from 2019 and its not that old.