Answered from New Grad (IC3) to Staff (IC6) at Meta in 3 Years | Simon Kindström · Ryan Peterman · 2026-10-23
Simon Kindström said the jump to IC6 needed two things. The first was scaling himself: he led two pods of seven people, then an eight-person team plus a separate 13-person project, handing sprint planning to pod leads while he coached. The second was a deep technical contribution: when a payments product crossing Instagram, Meta's main backend, a C++ payments backend and a third-party partner stalled near its milestone, he debugged it himself across every layer.
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