Re:How to Not Get Screwed over as a Software Engineer
by ldjkfkdsjnv on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:18PM
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The whole "scope" argument is the carrot on the stick. Many engineers, regardless of performance and scope, will not get promoted. They are more valuable to the company as work horses, even if they have higher level capacity and have shown that.
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Re:How to Not Get Screwed over as a Software Engineer
by scarface_74 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:23PM
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I don’t disagree with that. The best way to get a “promotion” is to work toward more scope, impact, ambiguity - and then leave.
Or in my case get PIP’d from Amazon with a nice severance and found a much less stressful job within three weeks at a smaller company. My hearts always been at smaller companies and I knew from the minute I virtually walked into AWS I wanted to go back to smaller companies.