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by richardwhiuk 683 days ago
It is - it's just that a really productive IC is a Senior Software Engineer. That's usually considered a fine place for a persons career to plateau.
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pc86 683 days ago
I don't know when people started conflating "being a really productive IC" with "getting to the top of the IC ladder but not having to do anything I don't want to do."
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surgical_fire 683 days ago
I am "stuck" at the senior engineer level by choice, Having been asked by multiple managers to apply for promotion.

I declined every time. I see no benefit in going further, and I see plenty of potential downsides.

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