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by jameshart 532 days ago
> an employee of a company, no matter the level, don't I need to do the tasks that are assigned to me by the higher level?

No, but ‘no matter the level’. Case in point, the IC6 and 7 levels in the Dropbox framework SWE track here both say:

> I transcend organizational boundaries and proactively identify the best way to leverage myself

At a certain level you are senior leadership and it becomes your job to figure out what the most useful thing to be working on is.