[JamesBarney]

I've seen B cause issues for great devs. It seems like if you're an ok or good dev with management qualities you're much more likely to get promoted than if you're a fantastic dev with management qualities. You're too important to delegate management tasks to, so you never get the required experience to move up.

[dirtybirdnj]

a victim of your own success.

the idea that there's no path for ICs beyond management is insulting and degrading to the hard working creatives and engineers out there. Don't give up there's a place for you, you just need to look a LOT harder and in places you wouldn't expect. Play the numbers its a statistics game.

[JamesBarney]

Oh this hasn't happened to me, I've been pretty proactive about interacting with both my direct manager and several levels above them, but I have seen it happen to other devs. Especially ones from east Asia who seem to culturally focus a lot more on doing a great job on N level tasks instead of focusing on N+1 level tasks.