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> So what happens when you promote someone for maintaining the same system for years? When do you stop promoting them? There's a person on my team who is happy to maintain what he works on. He has worked on fundamentally the same project for over a decade. He's a senior level engineer, and as far as I know doesn't have aspirations beyond that, which is perfectly fine. Assuming he keeps doing that work, and no more, does he get promoted again?

I know a few of these people who have been on the same product at Google for a decade and they generally cap out at L6, which is staff engineer.

L7 engineers are typically careerist and have larger a scope, focusing on higher level cross team collaborations. Some L6s are like this but there are plenty of them that are just chilling