[fingerprinter]

Oh, I agree with everything you just said. I was just wondering what it looks like from a career progression standpoint. If it's just titles, it's tough.

What you said about those cross-cutting problems and all that is spot on and that is basically what I see sr. engineers and architects. However, how do we or should we even further delineate career progression and responsibilities? And what does that look like? What is beyond those things?

[ecoffey]

I don't know :) titles are inherently political. They don't exist in some platonic vacuum. So some part of the progression is about broadcasting the status change to the larger organization. Beyond that I think the ladder becomes about company wide cross-cutting concerns, enough success to be an internal rallying flag. Things like that.

But I've never been in the position to either be promoted or do the promoting to that level :)