[HN Gopher] Levels of Technical Leadership
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       Levels of Technical Leadership
        
       Author : firstSpeaker
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2022-03-14 09:53 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (dr-knz.net)
        
       | ipaddr wrote:
       | Separating those who manage vs those who don't and calling them
       | an ic misses the company wide impact an ic could and should be
       | making. Those who manage are often labelled as multipliers but
       | the truth is they may be multipliers or dividers within the same
       | group. From a scale of doing harmful to everything possible -1 to
       | 1 multiplier effect per person on average is 0 and .999 for the
       | best.
        
         | x3n0ph3n3 wrote:
         | Yeah, my VP and I have been talking about my promotion to a
         | senior-staff level position and have been discussing with the
         | SVP how the culture of senior-staff/prinicpals being so hands-
         | off from IC work is a serious waste of talent. We are actively
         | shaping my new role to be much more hands-on than other senior
         | staffs are often expected to be.
        
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       | late2part wrote:
       | What's with the unique font?
       | 
       | e.g. "sp" and "ct"
        
         | whoisburbansky wrote:
         | They're called ligatures [1].
         | 
         | Congratulations, you're one of today's lucky 10,000! [2]
         | 
         | 1. https://www.thoughtco.com/ligature-in-typography-1078102
         | 
         | 2. https://xkcd.com/1053/
        
       | angarg12 wrote:
       | It isn't clear to me from the article, but has this ladder been
       | implemented somewhere or is it a theoretical framework?
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       | My issue with many such articles is that they propose and idea
       | without having tried it in practice. Unless you have implemented
       | this and seen it working well for a period of time, it's only
       | "armchair leadership".
        
         | gregdoesit wrote:
         | It's not mentioned directly in the article but this is the
         | typical Big Tech IC ladder and levels. Eg ones at Google, Meta,
         | Uber, Databricks, Amazon, Dropbox etc all like up like this,
         | including the level numbers (L6, L7 etc). Though there at small
         | differences on the interpreting and focus points at each level.
         | 
         | I agree the article could have been more clear.
        
       | bigcat123 wrote:
        
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