> You will never get a promotion or raise if there's no formal performance review process and career ladder. This has not been my experience. I've gotten promo

> You will never get a promotion or raise if there's no formal performance review process and career ladder. This has not been my experience. I've gotten promotions and raises at multiple companies without a formal ladder or meaningful performance review process. Sometimes to more-senior roles that were invented for me and played to my strengths. In my limited experience, promotion/leveling at small companies without much formal process has mapped way closer to people's actual skill level and accomplishments than at large companies with formal process. > You can't skip two steps ahead into whatever skills you wish you could learn. I don't get how this title summarizes the insight of this passage.