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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.