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If you just want to do interesting work, an issue with career ladders is that little interesting work filters down to the people at the bottom of the ladder. Th
by rdouble 16y ago
If you just want to do interesting work, an issue with career ladders is that little interesting work filters down to the people at the bottom of the ladder. This becomes a catch 22 for rookie employees. It becomes difficult to level up, because you're never working on anything that will wow your reviewers. In fact, the reward for excelling at boring but necessary tasks is often being stuck on those tasks forever. Thus begins the cycle of churn and lowering of hiring standards.
- nostrademons 16y agoThere's a very curious effect at Google that the most interesting work goes to interns. The least interesting goes to heroic senior engineers who've taken it upon themselves to clean up Google's codebase. This is as it should be, I think. Actually, I've noticed an almost direct correlation between the quality of a Tech Lead/Manager and his willingness to do the boring stuff and pass off the interesting, challenging tasks to his subordinates.