[HN Gopher] So You Want to be a Big Shot: Advice on playing the ...
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       So You Want to be a Big Shot: Advice on playing the promotion game
        
       Author : davidreisbr
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2024-02-24 22:04 UTC (55 minutes ago)
        
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       | rr808 wrote:
       | The vast majority of devs are under 30. Already most people are
       | "senior" after 5 years expensive. What are we going to do when
       | this cohort wants to get promoted into architects and managers in
       | 10-20 years time? There just aren't enough senior jobs.
        
         | deebosong wrote:
         | Just make up new titles.
         | 
         | Super Senior. Super Senior II. Hyper Senior II Turbo. Super
         | Senior: Ultra Instinct.
        
           | The_Blade wrote:
           | Sandhill Road Fighter 6 Turbo!
           | 
           | Guile still slaps
        
         | ImPostingOnHN wrote:
         | What do we do when they all want to be CEO after that?
         | 
         | It's just a reality that promotions are limited and not
         | guaranteed, and that reality becomes harsher the higher one
         | climbs.
         | 
         | Also, many people don't want the leadership and organizational
         | responsibilities that come with being promoted higher (less
         | coding, more politics, less working by yourself, more working
         | through others' hands, etc.)
        
         | philjohn wrote:
         | Staff and above are fundamentally different jobs to Senior,
         | which is why Senior is a terminal level at most companies.
         | 
         | It's about scaling yourself through others, and not everyone
         | wants to do that, and that's OK.
        
         | pjot wrote:
         | > What are we going to do
         | 
         | We'll probably just pay them more.
        
         | frfl wrote:
         | > cohort wants to get promoted into architects and managers in
         | 10-20 years time?
         | 
         | Architect is a different role than a dev, assuming dev means
         | programmer/coder/software developer/software engineer.
         | 
         | Manager is a completely different career path.
         | 
         | No every dev wants to change their role into a non-dev. Some
         | will, some will and will end up going back.
         | 
         | > There just aren't enough senior jobs
         | 
         | Well the job will change. New teams, products, companies will
         | come and go. No one stays at one company anymore -- okay that
         | may be an exaggeration but very rarely do you see one person
         | working a single job in this industry for 20-30-40 years
         | anymore.
        
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