Once great, now entrenched with management/senior engineers
Once great, now entrenched with management/senior engineers
Good pay, good perks, good flexibility, and good work/life balance.
L3-4s will have trouble being promoted unless lucky enough to have a good project and/or team. Lots of office politics about claiming and/or distributing work items to benefit personal promos. Unless you have a team who is trying to get you promoted instead of themselves, you’ll be there to do the dirty work instead.
People managers should focus on people. Spend more time on team alignment and representing them.
There are lots of management blind spots.
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