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> and if a quick breeze over your work history shows a forward moving progression of increasing responsibility. I'm curious on your reasoning behind wanting a

• bane 13y ago
  Over many years, people just tend to end up in positions of increasing responsibility unless they're really fouling up regularly or have some other limiting factor. It doesn't mean path-to-CEO, but a steady path from jr. dev to sr. dev or VP of engineering or some such is good. There's exceptions of course, people from academic backgrounds don't progress the same way for example. But spending 15 years in exactly the same position doing exactly the same job does not encourage me that they're the kind of creative, forward thinking, ambitious person I'd like on my team. Especially engineering types, who should be internally driven to improve things, from code to their jobs to their salary. Business requirements change over time, and a person who can't keep up with that and just wants to do the same job forever ends up becoming dead weight. Looking at it another way, I always try to hire somebody good enough that they could be my replacement.