An individual contributor is just someone who doesn't directly manage other people. I think you're supposed to use it to refer to people who are evaluated by t

An individual contributor is just someone who doesn't directly manage other people. I think you're supposed to use it to refer to people who are evaluated by their own work output as opposed to measuring the output of a team (even though I think for senior engineers it's totally valid to evaluate whether they're boosting the team and nudging them towards better solutions).