Peaking seems to come earlier and earlier. Used to be 50s, then 40s, now 30s???
According to a study (can’t remember the source), we should peak at 45.
When we started work, both our health and experience keeps growing, then physical health starts to decline from 40s and experience growth slow significantly too. At 45, decline in physical health can’t compensate for the slow increase in experience. There are some who possess energy and drive past 45… those are the Directors to CEO guys. I can them the Make IT class.
Maybe the study need to be updated for SWEs and the IT industry
Depends, if you move to a smaller company you can probably advance more.
Google is super large now, the size is tripled or doubled since i started. There are more directors than ever, and VPs are dozen a dime.
Peopel start measuring/comparing each other with their own yardstick, if you get promoted in 3 years, it was not your fault, but that other guy that can get there in 1 year, too bad, he at least has to wait another year before that is allowed. Nonsense a bit, but also it’s because the company is getting too large, if this doesn’t happen, everyone would be a VP after 6 years like they used to back when google started.
Yes I am aware of that. Depends on technical classification. Target bonus and RSUs changes. Base pay don’t vary much though… most companies have around the same. I notice ranks like senior manager to senior director have about the same base pay range. For example, a senior manager may get 25% target bonus, a director may get 50% bonus and a senior director may get 100% bonus. And if you are of a different technical classification, the target bonus may double e.g. a senior manager may get 50% bonus for that classification. Similar differences for RSUs… tend to double for level difference i.e. from say $500k for SM, $1M for Director and $2M for Senior Director.
When the organization matures, promotion would slow, should be expected. So the trick is to leave at certain point to join a startup or another part of the organization that is growing.
Another start up is fine, I can even go to another group within google and work on robotics, and that’d be political improvement, less so money wise though. In ads pa, it’s easier to get your comp bumped - easy to quantify impact and stuff.
And yes, I want to fire just like you guys all did eventually
Face the money is always better because is so easy to quantify money as you said Bring in so much, so can be compensated so much. Avoid cost center jobs
