From Microsoft Intern to Meta Staff Engineer: Raviraj Achar

👋 Hi, this is Ryan with another edition of my weekly newsletter. Each week, I write about software engineering, big tech/startups and career growth. ​​Thank you for your readership, we hit 29,000 readers this week 🙏 🎉 Today’s post is an engineering career story from Raviraj Achar who is a Staff Engineer (E6) at Meta. He shares his story of growth from being an intern at Microsoft all the way to Staff. If you’re new to FAANG levels, here’s a side-by-side comparison from levels.fyi that shows his journey: What sets his story apart is how transparent he is about what didn’t go well with actionable learnings for all levels. For more from Raviraj, I recommend you subscribe to his newsletter, Tech Lead Mentor and follow him on LinkedIn. Also if you like the content, please share it with your friends and coworkers. Enjoy! I am a Staff Engineer (E6) at Meta. I work in an infrastructure team (i.e. Meta's internal cloud) that enables microservices to communicate with each other. I completed m

👋 Hi, this is Ryan with another edition of my weekly newsletter. Each week, I write about software engineering, big tech/startups and career growth. ​​Thank you for your readership, we hit 29,000 readers this week 🙏 🎉 Today’s post is an engineering career story from Raviraj Achar who is a Staff Engineer (E6) at Meta. He shares his story of growth from being an intern at Microsoft all the way to Staff. If you’re new to FAANG levels, here’s a side-by-side comparison from levels.fyi that shows his journey: What sets his story apart is how transparent he is about what didn’t go well with action