I recently saw on LinkedIn that a former colleague of mine was just promoted to Partner. When I left in 2012, she was a 63. That would mean 5 promotions in ~5 years! She was a solid engineer but no superstar by any means, so how would such a trajectory be possible? Ideas: 1) she moved to management and was (apparently) amazing at it 2) she reported to the right person and was appropriately sycophantic 3) the bar for promotions has been really lowered since I was there Anybody else experiencing title inflation at Microsoft these days? Back in the old days, the shitty org for inflated titles was MSN but this is in Windows so I was extremely surprised!
That’s right - it’s not title inflation’s - principal engineering managers are actually director level at other companies and principal director is only one who has the title director in engineering world . So Microsoft has many levels sadly - so it’s confusing - but thanks to Facebook and google there is a pressure on salaries and the only way to give more salary is higher title (if the person is capable of that level) :( so ignore titles - at some point it will hit them if they don’t perform up to that level
why don’t you just ask her.
Yeah, I’ll do that. Brilliant. Explains why I didn’t make Partner
Diversity homie
Diversity.
“We have X% female in eng, but only Y% of partners are female! We need to increase the number of female partners!” Partner promos are decided quite high up where this sort of thing would sadly come into play.
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Microsoft isn't raising pay per level so for people at risk of leaving, or people who deserve higher pay the only option is to promote. At least that's my guess.
This isn’t true. They do raise pay on a case by case basis
What part of "per level" was I incorrect about?