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> My perception is that I'm considered too good on the "line"; I'd be a loss to the org to move up a notch. At a previous company, they moved a lot of their to
by wreath 4y ago
> My perception is that I'm considered too good on the "line"; I'd be a loss to the org to move up a notch.
At a previous company, they moved a lot of their top performer “line” engineers to staff level and they all felt unproductive and eventually quit.
- icedchai 4y agoYep. I've see this happen. People who are good at coding may actually want to code, not write "tech specs" and have review meetings all day.
- RHSeeger 4y agoThis is a fairly well known issue Peter Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle) > The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.[
- wreath 4y agoYeah sure but the point being these people never wanted this role and not only t company lost them as productive ICs to some other role but they lost them altogether (great engineers with deep domain expertise)