I work at a big company. A few times a year I meet an EPM or engineer and think “wow they are really good”. Usually, within a year, they get promoted. I still g

I work at a big company. A few times a year I meet an EPM or engineer and think “wow they are really good”. Usually, within a year, they get promoted. I still get to work with them and they are great IC’s, but they’ll have 2-4 people under them (that usually aren’t as good, but sometimes they will also be really good), and will try and help the other IC’s be good too. I’m always interested in becoming a better manager and was hoping I could pass this on to managers on my team, but it did not at all ring true to my experiences. I see people get promoted up as their competence improved, even at the VP Engineering level. Classic Peter Principle I guess but they haven’t yet hit the incompetence layer.