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by liquidcool 3591 days ago
No, it is not at all common. The expectation is you'll at least have a few years as a lead. You're going to have to move to a company with room for growth and get promoted.

If you want to stay technical, go with a non-enterprise software company. Anywhere from Google to a tech startup. If you want to get more managerial, pick anywhere else.

I wrote about this in much more depth here:

http://www.madeupname.com/management-the-final-frontier/