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Value is all about impact and companies are incentivized to reward and promote impact. It’s valuable to a company to have a really great IC, it’s even more valu
by archeantus 7y ago
Value is all about impact and companies are incentivized to reward and promote impact. It’s valuable to a company to have a really great IC, it’s even more valuable to have a manager that can grow their team into really great ICs - presumably like the manager was at one point.
If you are an amazing IC, but can’t/won’t help others grow to that level, you are only so valuable to the company - hence the IC ceiling.
- redisman 7y agoICs reach a local maximum at some point. Most companies aren't solving problems that are hard enough to warrant executive-level equivalent engineering roles (except organizational ie. management of said engineers).