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How FAANG Engineers Self-Assess Before Performance Reviews
Performance reviews at FAANG can feel like a black box until your manager delivers the verdict. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack a specific self-assessment framework that senior engineers at Google and Meta use to align their work with promotion criteria before review season hits. We walk through a concrete example: an Amazon SDE II who gathered evidence across three dimensions — scope of impact, technical leadership, and business influence — six weeks before her annual review. The result was a surprise promotion to SDE III. We also discuss common mistakes, like rating work by effort…
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