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>management is the best path to money, competence and effort be damned

Basically every German company ever. ICs be dammed.

Where management is literally the only career path in almost every company.

And you get promoted until what you do changes so much that you’re not good at it anymore, so you can’t justify another promotion and you remain a middle manager.

This is called the Peter Principle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

I wonder if that’s why Google has so many badass ICs in Germany.

Since when is Google a German company?

Very big engineering presence in Munich, also Zurich (which I realize is not Germany).

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