Tech company career ladders

Post by humanrebar » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:10 PM UTC

lstyls wrote: post #50

49bc wrote: post #44

> Some companies will dangle money at you as an alternative to going on the PIP. Can someone tell me a little about this? Is this a situation where a company pays you to quit without firing you?

It's called a severance package. The company isn't giving you money to quit - you're working at-will and they can terminate your employment at any time for any reason. The amount is usually equivalent to a few months worth of paychecks. What they pay you for is you signing away your ability to sue for wrongful termination. Because they can't really fire you for any reason.

Post by north_east_dev » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:23 PM UTC

hycaria wrote: post #111

peterburkimsher wrote: post #79

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Marriage doesn't help! "Partnership" is recognised by immigration, and that requires living together, sharing the same address and bank account for a year. This is because of a cultural shift in the meaning of marriage. It used to be one man and one woman, for life. Divorce, polygamy, homosexuality, and marriages of convenience changed that definition. I'm not trying to get distracted about whether those groups of pe…

> As soon as I get married, I'm going to have sex! Wait, you didn't yet ?

Post by jeanmichelx » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:29 PM UTC

throwaway84742 wrote: post #46

sudeepj wrote: post #29

What I also seen is people become victim of your their own success. If you over-achieve in one appraisal cycle it is very bad for you because you have increased your base-level of performance. It is like over-achieving sales target. I have learned the hard way that one needs to spread out the achievements. For example if you have good number of ideas then don't spew out all of them in one go. Introduce them say in ea…

That’s not really how this works. Right after a promo you’re not due for another promo. They are dividing a fixed size promo budget pie. So they rank you lower in order to be able to rank someone else higher. There’s no other reason, because it’s impossible to accurately measure engineer’s “performance”, or to even define it in the first place. At Microsoft, for example, in the olden days at least, managers would kee…

Post by ricardobeat » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:34 PM UTC

peterburkimsher wrote: post #70

ensiferum wrote: post #69

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Sorry I don't buy this. You make this sound as if you were stateless which of course is not the case or you wouldn't be able to be in Taiwan either unless you sneaked into there and are in fact working illegally.

I'm not stateless. I have a work visa. The article explains the pressure of living on a work visa (shut up, get in line, or lose your job, visa, and country). Taiwan is not "home" because I can't start a family here. Even if I didn't care about children's military service, I can't get a Taiwanese passport without renouncing my previous citizenship and going to military service myself. Taiwanese PR doesn't give childr…

Post by fatnoah » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 1:03 PM UTC

busterarm wrote: post #60

taneq wrote: post #55

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Even if the people are great, small (5-20 employee) companies often simply don't have scope for much career progression. You might have one layer of management between yourself and the company owner, so unless they start hiring or you plan on taking over the company, you can only be promoted once.

Yeah except your promotion isn't usually a level, it's lead, manager, director, or chief. You leverage that and walk to a slightly larger company in that new role after a couple of years. Then rinse & repeat once or twice and you just shaved off years of slogging through the FAANGs. After all of the above though, I would put 2-3 years in at a FAANG and then do whatever the heck I want.