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I much prefer the Fog Creek style, where incoming employees can immediately see a clear career path, which is good for loyalty and maintaining an institutional
by michaelchisari 16y ago
I much prefer the Fog Creek style, where incoming employees can immediately see a clear career path, which is good for loyalty and maintaining an institutional knowledge. And those are two things I feel a lot of companies severely undervalue in favor of keeping salaries below market rate.
- joezydeco 16y agoA clear path is good...until there's a roadblock. I just left a company that had a pileup of engineers at the end of the Junior 1-Junior 2-Senior 1-Senior 2 track. The next step up was Principal Engineer (or something like that) and there were only so many of those allowed. And those guys weren't quitting anytime soon. I figured there were only so many bumps they could give me before I hit the ceiling and stayed there for a decade, so I bailed.
- michaelchisari 16y agoDefinitely, but I think that's a situation that should have been addressed by that company, and I don't know if it translates into an argument against a clear career/salary path. They were always free to create new positions or levels.
- joezydeco 16y agoThat definitely was happening to some degree. To me it implied that there was a problem in this whole "ladder" idea when they had to keep invoking Zeno's dichotomy and adding more intermediate steps between Major Title 1 and Major Title 2 to keep people around salary-wise.