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The whole "scope" argument is the carrot on the stick. Many engineers, regardless of performance and scope, will not get promoted. They are more valuable to the
by ldjkfkdsjnv 3y ago
The whole "scope" argument is the carrot on the stick. Many engineers, regardless of performance and scope, will not get promoted. They are more valuable to the company as work horses, even if they have higher level capacity and have shown that.
- scarface_74 3y agoI don’t disagree with that. The best way to get a “promotion” is to work toward more scope, impact, ambiguity - and then leave. Or in my case get PIP’d from Amazon with a nice severance and found a much less stressful job within three weeks at a smaller company. My hearts always been at smaller companies and I knew from the minute I virtually walked into AWS I wanted to go back to smaller companies. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37969302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37969302