Re:Ask HN: How to climb up in tech technologically (not by b...
by onion2k on Friday October 09, 2020 @06:53AM
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... sit in boring corporate meetings
... tackling more and more exciting technical problems
I have some bad news for you.
Boring corporate meetings are where exciting technical problems are defined, and where it's decided on whether or not they're worth tackling. If you're not actively participating in the boring corporate meetings then you'll only ever be solving problems that other people have decided to tackle - which means you'll never be working on the things that you want to work on unless you're very lucky.
If you're really opposed to corporate meetings the alternative is to start your own company, but then you'll end up in sales meetings instead and those are much worse.
... tackling more and more exciting technical problems
I have some bad news for you.
Boring corporate meetings are where exciting technical problems are defined, and where it's decided on whether or not they're worth tackling. If you're not actively participating in the boring corporate meetings then you'll only ever be solving problems that other people have decided to tackle - which means you'll never be working on the things that you want to work on unless you're very lucky.
If you're really opposed to corporate meetings the alternative is to start your own company, but then you'll end up in sales meetings instead and those are much worse.