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I have a different view on stack ranking
- pjungwir 13y agoAs someone interested in someday building a development firm on a partner/associates model, I really appreciated reading the different perspective in this article. "Up or out" is controversial but in certain kinds of companies it can make a lot of sense. It can be a way to adapt your company's organization and culture to the reality that most programmers only stay in a job for a few years anyway. I think the author is right about people complaining in part because Microsoft is not growing. A corporation is compelled to expand in order to provide promotion opportunities to newer members.[1] If there were places for good-but-cursed-with-better-team-mates team members to go, stack ranking wouldn't seem such a problem. [1] See David Maiser, Managing the Professional Service Firm, for this principle applied to partner/associate service firms.