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Company I applied to for a senior position gave me a take home assignment and after reviewing said I'm maybe not to the senior engineer level but close and they'd like to consider me for normal engineer role. I personally don't think too much of it and can understand, but want to ask if there's any suspicion of trying to get a cheaper deal or if this is quite common actually.

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  • 4
    3y
    Try another couple of companies. I wouldn’t be surprised if another one offers you senior position, Cheaping away is a quite common practice nowadays
  • 2
    3y
    Bastards do it all the time. "bait and switch".

    Tell em you don't care about title, but won't change salary required.
  • 0
    3y
    @x4t3a Interesting, thank you!
  • 1
    3y
    @theKarlisK tbf I've been in a team with just me and another engineer same level as me, we were having a senior shortage so I guess often the expectation is all juniors work at same level as seniors lol? Tbf I remember one very smart manager of mine once told me titles are meaningless, she's not wrong but for jobs in seeing some say X years exp as a senior so curious on that
  • 1
    3y
    @Nihil75 I think he did say same salary etc, like he mentioned it very quickly and briefly so I imagine I was hearing things lol, but yeah titles don't mean much
  • 1
    3y
    I would say that this is normal. The seniority in one company is not the same as in others. I think it's good that at least they have given you an offer even though you are not a senior (for them), many companies reject you and that's it.
  • 0
    3y
    @theKarlisK Thanks, yeah I think I did make it clear in my other interview that I have done senior stuff like scoping, mentoring etc but I guess somehow the take home assignment made them think less of me. I did ask for feedback and the dude said he'd send it but hasn't yet
  • 0
    3y
    @coliClases Yeah there's that silver lining too, and it's what I told myself too, levels work differently at different companies, some companies a senior might as well be staff level, tbh I just want feedback on the take home to know what it is exactly I lacked
  • 0
    3y
    Thank you all for your advice! My takeaway from this is having other applications in parallel but continuing with them, if they offer I'll try to ensure the compensation package is good enough etc and that it's atleast an upper mid level role if that exists
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