Striving for excellence - career path usage in Engineering
We have set up a career ladder at GitGuardian. For its first iteration, it is mainly based on the career ladder proposed by Camille Fournier when she was working at Rent The Runway. But we added our specific skills around monitoring and security practices, and we will update it over time with our particular needs.
I have decided to modify its format, however. As we are using Notion at GitGuardian, I have chosen to use it as our support tool for everybody in the engineering department to drive their career.
In this article, we cover the following:
What is an engineering ladder
Individual Contributor track
Manager track
What about Tech Lead?
Why create an engineering ladder
Our career ladder format
Axes of the ladder
Levels of the ladder
How we manage promotions & the review committee
Development within a level
Progressing to another level
How to change of level
Brag list w/ your line manager along 1:1s
Assessment
Review with the committee
How to assess myself on the career ladder?
Common career path and specialization