[lanaius]

My very large company has 5 lanes. Purely technical is at the far right, purely management is at the far left. Our CTOs do not spend the majority of their career in the company in either lane and that seems to have worked out okay. I don't think people are particularly encouraged to stay in the management lane either.

[sokoloff]

Interesting. Can you put some descriptive labels around the three "middle" lanes as well? I'm trying to figure out the distinction that would make someone 25% management, 75% technical, vs 50/50