The terminal level rulebook.

At work, the Staff Engineer cohort has a monthly meeting. The agenda varies but most recently we talked about a common theme: how do you find career progression after reaching your organization’s terminal level?

Reaching the terminal level has a lot in common with graduating from your last educational environment (graduate school, high school, or whatever). Before you graduate, you have clear grades, graduation requirements, exams, and someone else is responsible for teaching you how it works. A...