How fast can career progression happen in technical roles? While exploring different opportunities, I have noticed that promotion paths vary widely between companies and teams. Some professionals seem to advance through strong project contributions, while others move up after leading initiatives and demonstrating broader impact. In your experience, is promotion driven more by individual execution or by taking ownership and leading projects?

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How fast CAN they happen? In the perfect environment, very fast.

How fast is LIKELY to happen? Not too fast.

I’d say leading a successful project across a finish line or hitting a major benchmark is a great way to get noticed, but that usually takes time to happen in very short order.

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I’ve seen promotions have been incredibly fast with growing companies or startups or acquisitions. But I’ve also seen people keep the same job and receive no title increase for a decade, but they did get pay increase. It depends what you’re looking for.

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I think most people in this bowl are just interested in keeping a job much less worrying about promotions.

Depends on how lucky you get with your manager, team, scope, project impact, visibility and promotion budgets

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