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0 pointsythn8y ago0 comments

If I were running the company, I'd just masquerade the demotion as a promotion:

1. Promote from principal engineer to technical manager

2. 2 years later -> this person sucks at management but they were a great engineer

3. "Promote" from technical manager -> principal engineer level 2

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s2g8y ago

moving backt o high level IC isn't usually considered the same way. You just move the person to work on something else as IC, and they say it was their choice because they like being a Principal engineer better.

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