Breaking the "senior engineer" ceiling - DEV Community
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I have met many engineers whose career progression seemingly stops at “senior engineer”. It happens f...
I have met many engineers whose career progression seemingly stops at “senior engineer”. It happens for many reasons: They found their sweet spot. Many engineers simply don’t want to be promoted. They love the project they are working on and enjoys being the subject matter expert in their domain. All they want is more of the same. There’s no career path after senior engineer. Many startups or SMEs have a flat hierarchy and do not offer career progression in the traditional sense (i.e. via title promotions). There’s too much competition for promotion. Even in large organizations there aren’t th
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