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One of the theoretical advantages of a large, diversified firm is the plethora of internal opportunities for job and even career changes with less friction than
by vonmoltke 11y ago
One of the theoretical advantages of a large, diversified firm is the plethora of internal opportunities for job and even career changes with less friction than trying to put yourself on the open market.
In practice, unfortunately, it seems all too easy to get pigeonholed, hit a political snare, or some other roadblock that makes your career there a trap rather than an opportunity.
- pacaro 11y agoThis. I worked at Microsoft for nearly 14 years. I had the privilege of working on 4 very different teams (microBrowser, Palladium/Bitlocker, Robotics, Midori) So in many respects it was like working at 4 different companies, in that respect I avoided the pigeonhole trap (which certainly also applies when you do move companies) but over time I accumulated corporate cruft which ended up dragging me down. Moving to a new company allows you to reset that.
- donut 11y agoWhat do you mean by corporate cruft?
- wting 11y agoYou become the goto guy / domain expert over enough things that most of your time is spent being interrupted or in meetings instead of building stuff.
- pacaro 11y agoFor example, your review history follows you, after a certain point poor promotion velocity is used to justify not promoting...