It's good that it's a real ladder. My first employer made a great show of having a dual career latter, but in reality there were very few people getting promot

It's good that it's a real ladder. My first employer made a great show of having a dual career latter, but in reality there were very few people getting promoted on the technical side. The end of year performance reviews devolved into, "How many reports do they have?" This is ruinous. Software firms are (or at least should be) better at this.