Building a Modern Engineering Career Ladder
Technical teams grow fast. Careers often don’t.
A well-designed engineering career ladder is one of the most important tools for retaining great talent, building confidence, and growing healthy technical cultures. And yet, most ladders are outdated, rigid, or nonexistent.
Create a Path
“The only thing worse than losing great engineers is watching them stagnate because you didn’t have a path for them.”
— Stephen Ledwith
“The only thing worse than losing great engineers is watching them stagnate because you didn’t have a path for them.”
— Stephen Ledwith
This post walks through how to design a modern ladder that works—from your first staff engineer to a platform org at scale.