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What is an IC?

• jiofih 7y ago
  Individual Contributor. Manager euphemism for a cog in the machine.
  • baroomba 7y ago
    SV-speak for labor, really, as in "the interests of capital/management and labor are, at times, opposed".
    • redis_mlc 7y ago
      I think it was originally a Microsoft acronym. But, yeah, IC = prole.
  • dasKrokodil 7y ago
    Never heard this before, reminds me of Idiocracy's 'Particular Individuals'
  • MockObject 7y ago
    What is the alternative to being an Individual Contributor? An...individual non-contributor? Or a non-individual contributor?
    • jiofih 7y ago
      Management and leadership roles.
      • MockObject 7y ago
        And they aren't said to contribute? Odd terminology.
• mrbrowning 7y ago
  Sibling commenters got it. Sorry for the jargon, I've clearly been here too long!