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You have got to really love a company to be willing to be promoted within it, given that it seems to take longer (as you can be hired for potential, but they wa
by MattGaiser 5y ago
You have got to really love a company to be willing to be promoted within it, given that it seems to take longer (as you can be hired for potential, but they want proof for promotion), suppresses your compensation, and requires learning politics.
- masterof0 5y agoAnd nowadays you make more getting hired at level N+1 at another company than staying and getting promoted.
- MattGaiser 5y agoI can easily see my reaction to being offered a promotion being "You idiot. You have been underpaid for 8 months."
- dominotw 5y agothis comment perfectly summarises how to get promoted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27147125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27147125
- MattGaiser 5y agoI guess my follow up would be, why bother with all that?
- ThrowawayR2 5y agoBecause the hot market for software developers won't last forever and for those that don't know how manage that aspect of their career when future downturns come, well, life's going to be rough, very rough.
- novok 5y agoChanging companies to become promoted starts petering out once you reach sr and if you want to become a manager, your often not hired as a manager directly without any previous management experience.
- MattGaiser 5y agoOh, I’m sure you hit a wall somewhere. But anecdotally from friends and colleagues, that wall is a place with extremely generous compensation anyway, past the point where more money is all that life changing.
- bloodyplonker22 5y agoIn Silicon Valley, I have seen many people hired as Staff or Principal, especially at smaller companies, when they should only be Senior or lower.