>During this one year and half I had constant talks with my new manager about the Lead position ( that then became Staff Engineer position ), all that happen we

>During this one year and half I had constant talks with my new manager about the Lead position ( that then became Staff Engineer position ), all that happen were talks talks and only talks, no action whatsover. The justification for the impossibility to move that position is that I need to show managerial skill over a big number of developers >the other Senior developer is now Lead ( we were only two senior in the previous team 1 year and half ago ). >I honestly don't know what to do anymore, I feel like I hit a brick wall, I talk about this with my manager every two weeks and he always says something will be done. Work has become de-motivating, I ended up in the team that does one of the hardest work in the company and that every other team now depends on, and this has only set me back. You've got all your answers here. Time to move on.