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In most careers, you top out around 8 years of experience for individual contributor. After that, you add value through scale of managing direct reports.
by wtvanhest 8y ago
In most careers, you top out around 8 years of experience for individual contributor. After that, you add value through scale of managing direct reports.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoYes, exactly. Diminishing marginal returns after 8 years. That said, I really wonder about management - a talented senior dev who can write clean code, is polygot and knows their way around everything, gives good estimates, communicates well ... I think that might worth more than anything really. Often tech is more like a sports team where individual contributors matter more than those making other decisions, i.e. coaches. (That said, there could be a serious market inefficiency here: a spectacular coach may be worth more than great players, it's just really difficult to measure!)