I wonder if this is also to make it harder to recruit folks who work at Meta. If everyone’s title is the same external recruiters don’t know who to target by level.
Looks like the perfect way to hide all kind of discriminations.
I love the idea of compensation being decoupled from your level and tied directly to impact, and I also love levels being opaque (as if they're more of an administrative requirement). I wonder if there are IC5s that make more than IC10s for example.
> An interesting principle at Meta: compensation and career progression are separate. You can make more when not promoted, than those who are.
It’s not like they are the first company to award people - new hires or veteran employees- with titles instead of money.
Wasn’t there a story about people who couldn’t get Facebook to corroborate their seniority level when applying for a new job?
What's the point of seniority if it's secret and not tied up comp? Why even have levels then?
Also, I love the irony of a culture of secrecy at the company that's explicitly about incinerating all personal privacy.