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Re:The other kind of staff software engineer by RHSeeger on Friday May 13, 2022 @05:10PM (#31372567)
This is a fairly well known issue Peter Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle)

> The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.[

Re:The other kind of staff software engineer by wreath on Sunday May 15, 2022 @02:12PM (#31389597)
Yeah sure but the point being these people never wanted this role and not only t company lost them as productive ICs to some other role but they lost them altogether (great engineers with deep domain expertise)