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I’ve never been promoted, in 20+ years of working in software. Hadn’t fully realized it until I saw this thread & thought through all the ‘transitions’ I’ve been through. Every time I got more money, more responsibility, AND a different title, it was because I changed companies.https://twitter.com/kf/status/1081791425577021440 …
tbh I don't think this is unusual or limited to women. I've been in the industry for 20+ years and I've also only had one or two promotions. The rest was being proactive, changing jobs, managers, that sort of thing. Promotions don't happen in software development it seems :P
Same, two promotions in 25 years But... those two promotions were pretty close together, so at least for a couple of years I had “velocity”
The more I think about it the more sense it makes; the cost and effort of promoting someone in highly specialised roles, vs. Taking someone new on who can fail while you’re covering the bases is much higher. Long term your retention suffers but that’s often not a priority.
Yeah. It seems pretty standard to hold internal staff to an extremely high bar to reach a title but simultaneously hire total unknown outside candidates into the same title without a second thought ... and then wonder how you could possibly have retention problems.
I don't want to take away from this message at all, but the only promotion I've had in my 17 years was a relunctant one, to correct a demotion I took when joining a company. Really annoying.
Same for me
One promotion I heard about was a ee engineer who did electromicroscope level debugging. He became a well paid manager after making a few excel scripts and never did ee since.
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