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I meant the tone of the comments, not the substance. How hard is it to be polite and consider that op did it for free?

Holy shit, the entitlement of some comments here. As if they paid for your service and you let them down and caused them damages.

Thanks op for your contribution.

Ah, good to know. I was wondering why Cory would be giving conspiracy theorists any attention. 😅

Is that a conspiracy spreading or a conspiracy skeptic podcast?

I should know, I’ve been a software engineer for over 20 years and an engineering manager for over 10. I’ve promoted many engineers.

I don’t know what L4 and L5 map to in your company, but usually the gap between levels widens the higher the level. It’s much easier to go from entry-level (recent graduate) to mid-level, than from senior to staff. The skills required to make that jump are much harder to acquire, there’s less opportunities to put them in practice and a lot more dependencies on external factors you don’t have control over.

the ability to penetrate bands

That’s traditionally called “promotion”. So they’re not promoting employees anymore?