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I was once told, effectively: "we didn't promote you because you're too valuable where you are (senior-level engineer)". Needless to say, I left a few weeks lat
by hcayless 13y ago
I was once told, effectively: "we didn't promote you because you're too valuable where you are (senior-level engineer)". Needless to say, I left a few weeks later.
Performance can be very hard to measure, particularly for non-technical managers.
- andrewflnr 13y agoIt's not at all obvious that you would leave. Not knowing the specifics, a lot of us would lean toward asking for a pay raise rather than be promoted to the level of our incompetence.
- skj 13y agoI just think that a promotion shouldn't automatically entail moving into management. At my company the engineer ladder and the management ladder are different (though you can transfer between them if you like). I can get promoted 5 more times (NOT gonna happen, I'm hoping for 2 in the next 5 years) before I get stalled out. And people that are 5 levels above me are effectively gods.
- andrewflnr 13y agoYeah, that makes sense to me. But apparently hcayless is not in the same situation but still got offended when they weren't promoted.