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This reminds me of The Peter Principle, which basically says that people will be promoted to the level of their incompetence. Not to say that that are incompete
by daveslash 7y ago
This reminds me of The Peter Principle, which basically says that people will be promoted to the level of their incompetence. Not to say that that are incompetent people, per se, but that if they are doing well in their current position, they will get promoted. They will continue to get promoted until they land in a position that is just a little out of their league, and that's where they'll stay. Eventually, an org is filled with people who are just a little over-their-head in almost every position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
- rightbyte 7y agoThe Peter Principle implies that the higher in the hierarchy you go the more difficult your duties are. My take is that engineers between like 4 and 15 years experience and are not managers of some sort have the hardest duties. As a novice you get help or are not handed the really hard tasks and as senior you talk about the hard tasks or do some pre-study and leave the implementation as a exercise to someone else. Promotions are more about having a ticket away from hard engineering tasks than engineering competence.
- daveslash 7y agoAt the risk of creating more low-quality comment spam: I concur.