The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech
I got down leveled when I moved to big tech.<p>Spent two years completely remaking the product I was tasked to work on, while the two other engineers on my team, both a level above me, cheered me on and didn’t do much.<p>I turned our product from a total waste about to be cancelled into a promising tech with some momentum, but I spent all my time coding instead of writing about coding, and I likely won’t get promoted again this cycle.<p>It’s been very strange to see the fruits of my labor benefit the org while feeling totally unrecognized outside of my team.<p>Now dealing with massive burn out for the first time in my career. Not sure what to do. I make sure to put out fires and do the bare minimum to keep up the product momentum, but I have no love for the org and just don’t think I’m cut out for the politics games.