[Ididntdothis]

In my company there is a technical path but it’s really really hard to advance on it compared to the managerial path. We have one guy who is really high on the technical path but he was director before and was a bad manager so they moved him to the technical path. Otherwise I haven’t seen anybody technical promoted beyond the same pay grade of the lowest ranked managers. So it seems to me that the manager path is better just for the fact that it pays better.

In addition, a lot of of the main decisions are being made by management before engineers even get involved. Don’t know how to improve this but from what I have seen in other companies this seems fairly standard.

[chrisweekly]

IME (21-yr career), there's a huge range wrt culture, power structure, and growth oppty across different kinds of companies. The biggest / most relevant diff rel to technical path is btwn orgs that are engineering-driven vs product-driven (except when said product is in a highly technical domain). Maybe obvious, sharing in case it's not.

[homonculus1]

Are you paying your ISP per vowel or sth?

[chrisweekly]

Heh, just typing on my phone in a hurry