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This seems like a super-biased view, and having sat on tons of promo committees for IC, ICTLM, and EngMgr for many years, i'd suggest to you it could not be mor
by DannyBee 5y ago
This seems like a super-biased view, and having sat on tons of promo committees for IC, ICTLM, and EngMgr for many years, i'd suggest to you it could not be more wrong.
Managers don't get promoted for growing teams. I've watched lots and lots of people who write "grew team from x to y" get feedback on their promo packet that this isn't, by itself, a valuable thing.
- Jensson 5y agoI didn't say you get promoted for growing a team, I said you easily get promoted when you manage a lot of people.
- DannyBee 5y agoThis is also, in my experience, wrong. But you also started with "lucking out that the product grew" as your view for how that happens too.
- akomtu 5y agoI guess their real promo is when they interview elsewhere and tell how they've been managing a big hoard of ICs. A few years later they come back and tell the story how they've been a director/VP/etc. and get a matching level which is above the level of that guy who wrote "not a valuable thing" feedback.
- DannyBee 5y agoGoogle doesn't matches levels based on title when hiring. The main cases of "title inflation" of this kind are related to M&A rather than hiring. That's obviously much rarer. In hiring, the only thing the title/size of org buys you is an initial guess at level. (IE i get asked to interview the person for a potential director position).