Im at a point in my life where I enjoy the challenges of the IC route, have no intention to change tracks to management but interested in advancing my career.
However, as I look toward my next career jump, the advice summarized I get is “needs to have organizational impact”.
Put blantantly, im assigned work, assigned teams to help, assigned scope. Impact is basically predetermined.
Looking to understand how folks in the community have demonstrated this in their respective companies to achieve roles past l6.
TC: ~350k / 15yoe
Edit: Not really interested in increasing comp(I understand its important), more interested in strategies or ways of thinking that helped them
Edit2: To avoid confusion, when I refer to L6, im referring to the staff designation in most companies. That is SWE5 at Adobe
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This is tough to do but the best way is to start participating in any initiatives that impact a larger team.
Ideally, your manager should also be guiding you into such org impact initiatives but you got to be lucky to have a manager like that😀
If this is the way you think you don’t deserve even L6.