excellent article, it is especially interesting the advice on being liberal with promotions and technical career track, given that in several companies I've wor

excellent article, it is especially interesting the advice on being liberal with promotions and technical career track, given that in several companies I've worked for when you get to a certain level (principal/staff/lead/... whatever) getting promoted further is an exercise in frustration, because either there are only X slots (we can't have more than X fellow positions in the company) or it becomes a matter of having to play politics, or you end up in companies where the technical ladder has a (sometimes low) glass ceiling. I would've added a paragraph on stack ranking and curve ranking in general, which although obviously extremely detrimental to morale and retention, still unfortunately rears its head at times, and one about how to handle layoffs/restructurings as those are not easy to do well.