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> At $150k, I was coasting at a large company for a few years, but it wasn’t like I did _nothing_. I did my sprint work as assigned within the sprint.

It's weird to count literally doing your job as requested as "coasting."



Welcome to big corpos.

If you’re not pushing the envelope to be noticed more and build your promotion packet, you’re coasting.


> If you’re not pushing the envelope to be noticed more and build your promotion packet, you’re coasting.

No, I'd say that's just not being ambitious, which is different from coasting.


Maybe I didn’t explain myself well.

My managers and principal engineers on my team made it clear that NOT actively working to build promotion packet materials and engaging in self-marketing within the company placed me at a lower rank over time.

It was explicitly not good enough to do my job as described. They used a system called stack ranking and (unofficially) they would put people lower on the ranks on PIPs and prepare to let them go even if they were fulfilling their responsibilities to the letter (but not above)

Maybe this wasn’t the case for staff level engineers, but it was for mid levels (which I was at the time)




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