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My personal experience shows to the contrary, the super talented engineers do well, and get promoted much more easily. And I’ve seen many cases of “run-of-the-
by strulovich 5y ago
My personal experience shows to the contrary, the super talented engineers do well, and get promoted much more easily.
And I’ve seen many cases of “run-of-the-mill engineers” change cultural aspects of the office and the company.
This is all based on mostly one employer, but a very big one. I suspect smaller companies make fast promotions for talented engineers and cultural changes even easier.
(I do agree that sometimes people that look in no way special at first glance turn out to be fantastic founders)
- xwdv 5y agoPromoted to what though? A job with more responsibility but not really a good enough increase in pay to go along with it? No thanks.
- avl999 5y agoExactly, why are you chasing promotions? Isn't it ok to be happy with where you are and have satisfaction? My title is Sr Software Engineer. My boss keeps bringing up in our 1 on 1s about what we should do to carve out a path for a promotion to "Principal Engineer" but I don't care. The small amount of pay bump is just not worth the added responsibility (not to mention the hoops they make you jump for the promotion).
- Tcepsa 5y agoVery reassuring to hear that I am not the only one in a position like that; thank you for sharing! (I am planning on stepping pretty firmly off the path to Principal Staff to substantially alleviate work-related stress and anxiety)
- sswaner 5y agoThis is a great mindset to have. I would especially recommend that you avoid management for as long as possible. The joy of building software is hard to replace once you hang it up and start attending meetings for a living.
- xwdv 5y agoExactly. For many people senior software engineer is a stepping stone to something more, for me, there is nothing greater. If I wanted to be more ambitious I’d start a business.