There is M1 and there is M2, and then there's Director. There's no level 6+ on the management track. I'll disagree with this statement by saying that I think the step function in skills between managing people and managing people who manage people is huge. There are larger gaps between M1 -> M2 -> D than IC6 -> IC7 -> IC8...
but, I think the answer depends. If you are a really strong individual contributor, I presume getting an IC promotion is easier. If you are just decent, getting an IC7+ promotion seems incredibly challenging because IC7 requires an very high level of competence. If you are just decent as a manager, you can get luckier.
It me. I’m a good Dev but was never going to be one of the greats. Making the jump to manager seemed like the next logical step… and in sone ways it has been, but it’s a very different job. (Now that I evaluate other people’s dev work, I was actually a lot better than I thought I was)
I've noticed that many of the best devs are constantly worried about their output and quality and the worst not worried at all. This is as a Sr. IC who gets pulled in to other teams on the regular.
Might be true for you. But this is so not true for a lot of the world still. Lots and lots of young people (late 20s, early 30s) still use FB. Anecdotally, quite a few of my friends still do, if not mostly for the groups.
I have turned off I think hundreds of ad targeting switches in Facebook, Google, Windows, and LinkedIn, and despite the incessant passive-aggressive warnings about how ads will be "less relevant", I don't find them to be worse.
I hope you're not one of the weirdos who likes to contradict people and say we are all fooling ourselves and the algorithm knows all.
It is worrying how deep the political pockets of some of these rich cryptocurrency “elites” are and, ironically, how integrated they are becoming with traditional finance. A big downturn in the crypto space will have ripple effects that could affect the larger economy. Combine that with an actual looming recession.
My feeling is that cryptocurrencies brought wealth to people considerably less political than the traditional financial elites. And I really like this.
Still, if the traditional finance is affected by the downturn in crypto is just because the first ridiculed BTC and then jumped on the bandwagon too late. They could have decided to invest in BTC in 2015, rather than laughing, or they could have decided not to take part in the game, and not to integrate traditional finance with crypto.
Still, joke's on them, people who bought crypto in 2015 are doing pretty fine, even with this "huge downturn". Looks like the "traditional finance" forgot to buy low and sell high.
but, I think the answer depends. If you are a really strong individual contributor, I presume getting an IC promotion is easier. If you are just decent, getting an IC7+ promotion seems incredibly challenging because IC7 requires an very high level of competence. If you are just decent as a manager, you can get luckier.