Google tells employees that fewer of them will get promotions to senior roles

Re:Google tells employees that fewer of them will get promot... by lliamander on Monday March 06, 2023 @08:30PM (#35050324)

Most everything I've seen about advancing beyond "career-level" (usually into a "staff+" engineer track) has said that ability alone will not get you a promotion. In general, there needs to be a "business need" for those positions to be created in the first place.

It does not run contrary to the idea of meritocracy to assert that a firm has limit on the number of people that it can hire into a certain position - so long as the people who do fill those are selected are (more or less) the most qualified. Note that I am not saying anything about whether Google actually meets this ideal.

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Re:Google tells employees that fewer of them will get promot... by taeric on Monday March 06, 2023 @08:34PM (#35050365)

I mean, at a very real level, that is true for all positions. If the business doesn't have a need to pay you at a level, they won't do so.

I thought I had just always heard pride from the Google sphere about how they were much closer to the ideal of a meritocracy than other places. This feels... not that. :D

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