[paulz_]

> I think there is still a bit of a perception that IC levels higher than Senior are about "Senior but with more interesting technical problems". This is largely false.

Anyone know of a career path where this is actually the case? Lately it seems like everywhere I turn it's meetings and PowerPoint. Ideally I'd like to keep working on harder and harder engineering problems until I die of old age.

[toast0]

Work on small teams doing hard things. Best if the team is mostly experienced people, too.

Big companies may work on harder problems, but usually with bigger teams and you end up doing a lot more communication.