Microsoft is one of the few companies that seems to do a good job allowing employees to rise through the ranks from top to bottom. Most of the Partners I have met were cultivated internally. Facebook is also like this, with the added bonus of allowing much faster progression for high performers than most other companies (I know someone who became an E6 Engineering Manager/Tech Lead 3 years out of college. I don’t think it was necessarily for “bullshit” either, his work was very fundamental and important to the company).But this is rather rare and most companies have a soft ceiling for growth internally. At Google for example, for years they have been filling most Director positions externally, and so most employees find it very hard to get there and progress past that. Progression is also often subject to norms that make the sheer number of promotions required to make it high up in the company impossible.
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