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I went from CTO to SDE II, and it totally made sense. There's nothing wrong with being downleveled if you are playing a different scale game.

There is a huge difference being a senior engineer working on a $5,000 system versus a $1,000,000,000 system.

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Yeah, similar story for me. "Senior engineer" at failed startup into Founder/CTO at other failed startup. Then L3 at Snap into L4 at G. No hard feelings whatsoever. We're all moving pixels and pushing buttons for money, I try not to get too caught up in the promo game; much more interesting stuff in life outside the screen.

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