*Junior Engineer to Senior Engineer*: Build a cache

When joining a team the engineers are building features and functionality. No one has time to address performance issues, so when you come in, you can easily improve a performance bottleneck by building a cache. Now you can claim 10x speed improvements and clear savings.

When joining a team the engineers building features and functionality, no one has time to address performance issues, so when you come in, you can easily improve a performance bottleneck by building a cache. Now you can claim 10x speed improvements and clear savings.

*Senior Engineer to Staff Engineer*: Build a dashboard

It doesn’t matter that the company already has 6 different key value store systems or that you can find open source solutions. Your problem is surely slightly different. Building a new one shows deep technical chops.

At this point getting promoted on the *Individual Contributor* track becomes difficult, so you do a *lateral move to Management*.

At this point getting promoted on the Individual Contributor track becomes hard, so you do a lateral move to management.

*Manager to Director*: do a reorg

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