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by jvanderbot 16 days ago
If I can just hold at this role for 6 more years, I'm happy. I chased promotions for a decade and regretted all but the first two, which brought me to this level.

There's a larger issue with that though: At some point, successful engineers _need_ to become examples or leaders if we are to continue exponential growth. If you are happy discontinuing exponential growth, then that's fine.
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deathanatos 16 days ago
> There's a larger issue with that though: At some point, successful engineers _need_ to become examples or leaders

Why? Why should I become an example, or a leader? To be blunt: why do companies think I should do that additional work, without additional pay?

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jvanderbot 16 days ago
Well they may think you should do extra work without extra pay, but you shouldn't think that.

If you want to grow the company, (and all companies want to grow), or new companies want to start, we gotta train new people. That means you, too. Knowledge transfer and good culture is how the industry changes for the better. Otherwise it's all the pointy haired ones exploiting useful idiots.

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