"At Big Tech, senior-and-above promotions commonly involve a widening impact radius and increasingly complex problems."
Orosz describes senior-and-above promotion expectations as expanding from team-level toward organization- or company-level impact while the problems involved become more complex. + Orosz describes promotion-driven development as an incentive created by impact-driven promotion systems that can favor non-trivial cross-organizational engineering projects over simpler off-the-shelf solutions. + Orosz argues that staff-level promotion incentives can make complex in-house solutions more useful as career evidence than adopting an existing solution, while acknowledging that custom tooling can also be technically justified.
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