[josteink]

> there are always new product people joining the company. And what the heck are they going to do to get recognized and promoted

Maybe I don’t get it, but it seems weird to me that everyone needs to get promoted all the time.

Where I live you get employed in a position and most people stay in that position for most of their career.

You may climb the ranks, but that’s not something everyone does all the time.

[exitheone]

At Google, promotion does not change your position, it changes your "Level", which roughly rewards you for having wider-ranging influence as an engineer. You don't get promoted to management or anything like that. You stay an engineer.

Disclaimer: I work at Google.

[pmlnr]

Thank you. I thought I was alone with these thoughts.

I was not promoted in 5 years, since I joined my current company, and that is OK. I still have 32 years to work, at least.