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Logeshwari
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What is the advancement potential in the field? What is a typical path?
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Pablo Valarezo
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Logeshwari,
It used to be that you did engineering until you were good enough to manage other engineers and, at that point, some engineers became 'people-managers' and didn't get to do engineering anymore!
Many companies realized that if you're good at engineering, it doesn't mean you're good at *managing* engineers, so they created 'individual-contributor' career paths that advance you without necessarily putting you in charge of a team. What does change as you progress is the level of complexity, like Taylor said, and the magnitude of the problem to solve. A junior engineer can design a solution for a small problem or part of a small project, but a senior engineer should be able to solve problems which can impact the whole company!
I hope this helps.
It used to be that you did engineering until you were good enough to manage other engineers and, at that point, some engineers became 'people-managers' and didn't get to do engineering anymore!
Many companies realized that if you're good at engineering, it doesn't mean you're good at *managing* engineers, so they created 'individual-contributor' career paths that advance you without necessarily putting you in charge of a team. What does change as you progress is the level of complexity, like Taylor said, and the magnitude of the problem to solve. A junior engineer can design a solution for a small problem or part of a small project, but a senior engineer should be able to solve problems which can impact the whole company!
I hope this helps.
Taylor Zhao
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Hey Logeshwari!
There's lots of advancement within engineering! You start off as a contributor for a small part of the project and eventually work until you manage projects and people. The higher up you go, the more complexity and integration you have to consider with other teams. It also depends on the industry you are involved in within engineering.
You can find more info on Google if you search "day in the life of an engineer". Good luck!
There's lots of advancement within engineering! You start off as a contributor for a small part of the project and eventually work until you manage projects and people. The higher up you go, the more complexity and integration you have to consider with other teams. It also depends on the industry you are involved in within engineering.
You can find more info on Google if you search "day in the life of an engineer". Good luck!