Ask HN: How do you become an Engineering Director / CTO in a big enough company?

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Given that the career growth is almost never transparent and is usually very complicated within any big/profitable enough hi-tech software company, and at the same time any L8+ vacancy you see requires experience of the same level — how does one become a director of engineering these days?

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Good, well-maintained connections with long built-up trust in each other. Then experience doesn't even matter.

Can you elaborate plz. For instance, does building up connections within 1 org helps with promotions in another, or is it even scalable?

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