> an employee of a company, no matter the level, don't I need to do the tasks that are assigned to me by the higher level? No, but ‘no matter the level’. Case

> an employee of a company, no matter the level, don't I need to do the tasks that are assigned to me by the higher level? No, but ‘no matter the level’. Case in point, the IC6 and 7 levels in the Dropbox framework SWE track here both say: > I transcend organizational boundaries and proactively identify the best way to leverage myself At a certain level you are senior leadership and it becomes your job to figure out what the most useful thing to be working on is.