What is the promo process at your company ?
Google is very bureaucratic and similar to academia with multiple people judging the promo packet, to try and prevent having managers attempt to block promo, but the processes takes 1-2 months and is inefficient. You spend weeks preparing and then deliberating over these packets. Promo at Google requires sustained L+1 or even L+2 performance. This has recently changed and only requires “capability” of L+1 and is now slightly more efficient but managers have more power. Yet to be seen if this is the case. None of the other I worked at were like this. The fast track to promo is job hopping obviously. But what is promo like at your company? #engineering #software #google #meta #amazon #netflix #apple #career
have good relation with manager
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Step one is sucking a whole huge bag of dicks, and step two is having a manager who also sucks a whole big bag of dicks so people listen to them when they suggest promoting you.
The process doesn’t actually take 1-2 months and manager can block much more easily than before, they moved everything in org now, even feedback. Also reports aren’t supposed to do packers and they’re supposed to be really short. Your general point stands but your post is an odd mix of Perf from 3 years ago and GRAD. I wish the idea was less bias —- it used to be. You did your packet and another org reviewed it
Promo starts in September and ends in October, that’s 2 months right? Perf used to take almost 5 months (start in August find out in January). Maybe for L3->L4 your manager does your packet. My director doesn’t have time to assemble my packet. Maybe other orgs are different. Yes there’s no longer calibration across the PA and company level which is why things are 50% quicker.