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> And even at the BigTech companies who claim to have "parallel" technical promotion tracks that don't involve people management, And the promotion to upper te

• gradstudent 2y ago
  In my experience, there is not much technical growth as you go upward because there's not that much need for technical depth. What most companies need is armies of low and intermediate programmers churning out various kinds of CRUD apps. There's a bit of scope to be a "senior" grunt, and there may even be some very small number of "architects" above that but generally what's needed is people to manage the grunts and senior grunts. Further technical growth requires something like a PhD, and even then, that just makes you a grunt on a new (=academic) ladder, which has the same structure as before.
• ants_everywhere 2y ago
  It seems reasonable that eventually it's easier to parallelize instead of having a single unit just do more stuff.
  • nine_zeros 2y ago
    There is nothing that states that career progression must be a pyramid which creates the lack of bottleneck and parallelization. We could have many parallel units and yet each unit can keep making technical progress.