What steps do you feel you did or did not take to achieve promotion, or signal to your manager that this was something you were even interested in? For most en

What steps do you feel you did or did not take to achieve promotion, or signal to your manager that this was something you were even interested in? For most engineers, "promotion" means "convert yourself into a manager somehow", and I know many engineers who just aren't interested - to the point it wouldn't surprise me if this is assumed in many orgs.