The level thing reads like some kind of horrible gaslighting, but to be fair it's mostly true across all companies. Being a senior engineer in a company that ha

The level thing reads like some kind of horrible gaslighting, but to be fair it's mostly true across all companies. Being a senior engineer in a company that has QA and/or project managers is a very different role than in one that doesn't, for example, and this is a dimension orthogonal to "level". The bit on promotions is fairly commonplace and sound, about the only real solution I've seen to the Peter Principle. This doesn't strike me as a particularly exciting document but it doesn't seem terrible either. I like that there are a variety of ways companies handle this sort of thing, and that companies are being more open about it. It really helps potential employees sort out where they want to be.