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This is plain wrong. Facebook, Microsoft, and Google have parallel tracks for programmers and managers. You can progress all the way up to Senior VP equivalent
by nikhizzle 12y ago
This is plain wrong.
Facebook, Microsoft, and Google have parallel tracks for programmers and managers. You can progress all the way up to Senior VP equivalent as an engineer with no management duties. These roles include compensation equivalent to traditional CEO level roles.
Eg. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/02/28/meet-jeff-rothschild-the-hidden-facebook-billionaire-old-enough-to-be-zuckerbergs-dad/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/02/28/meet-jeff-rot...
- michaelochurch 12y agoThis is plain wrong. Facebook, Microsoft, and Google have parallel tracks for programmers and managers. You can progress all the way up to Senior VP equivalent as an engineer with no management duties. These roles include compensation equivalent to traditional CEO level roles. It is a lot harder to make "Director-equivalent programmer" in those companies than to make Director. In terms of skill, hard work, and intelligence, the competition is a thousand times tougher.
- nikhizzle 12y agoI don't have enough information to judge that, since I never made it to director level at my time at FB. One salient note is that at FB you can switch between parallel tracks whenever you like. Eg. Any director level engineer can switch to being a director level manager and vice versa.