> In the software engineering world, we exist on a ladder. We call this ”Leveling”.

That bubble is not the world, I exist outside the ladder and I am legion.

I am also a renegade it seems. I just couldn’t institutionalize myself like that.

browningstreet 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> That bubble is not the world

Hence the author's "In the software engineering world".

Nothing in author's write-up led me to think he doesn't understand that.

Yeah, no. Most companies do not have that exact hierarchy. Maybe at FAMGA etc, but most engineering jobs are not there.

	▲	browningstreet 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, not that exact hierarchy. But a hierarchy. At other places it might be Senior, Principal, Director, etc. at some places they’re given, at other places you fight for it. Variations of leveling.

delichon 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

65 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I must say, life is a lot easier as a software engineer outside of Big Tech. It seems like a bit of a pressure cooker to me.