How Hiring Committees Decide Between Senior and Staff

A hiring committee is a small group of engineers and managers who read the written record of an interview loop and decide whether to make an offer, and at which level. At many companies, the members of the committee did not interview the candidate. They see what the interviewers wrote, the resume, and notes from the recruiter, and they decide from those documents alone.

Other companies hold a debrief instead. A debrief is a meeting in which the interviewers discuss the candidate together, and a hiring manager or senior engineer makes the final decision