> there are always new product people joining the company. And what the heck are they going to do to get recognized and promoted
Maybe I don’t get it, but it seems weird to me that everyone needs to get promoted all the time.
Where I live you get employed in a position and most people stay in that position for most of their career.
You may climb the ranks, but that’s not something everyone does all the time.
At Google, promotion does not change your position, it changes your "Level", which roughly rewards you for having wider-ranging influence as an engineer. You don't get promoted to management or anything like that. You stay an engineer.
Disclaimer: I work at Google.
Thank you. I thought I was alone with these thoughts.
I was not promoted in 5 years, since I joined my current company, and that is OK. I still have 32 years to work, at least.