As I was working on the Staff promotion packets article,
I originally included a section on "Promotion pathologies" to (attempt to) avoid when
going up for a promotion to a staff-plus engineering role, but
it ended up making the article less cohesive so I scrapped it there
and have pulled it out here as a separate post.
I've written about some of the weird emergent behavior around promotions,
but didn't address how some recurring tropes often derail individual promotion nominations.
The themes...
Published on August 09, 2020 08:00