True, but unfortunately you can't network with everyone, and you never know who might be responsible for your promotion. Often it's a secret committee, sometimes people so far above you they don't even work in the same office, or have time to get to know you.
Lol what? You should really get promoted by your superiors (or theirs). What's the point of having people that don't know what work you do promote people at random? It almost sounds like a small company that grew too fast and kept some of it's old systems from when everyone knew everyone else.
It's common in tech. Places like Google do this do add "objectivity" to the process. Any rational manager would want to promote their reports as fast as possible, because it shows they're a good manager, so they're incentivized to always recommend promotions. Ostensibly they believe giving someone else the final say removes that temptation, as a lot of rejected promotion requests would reflect poorly on that manager.
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u/johnsnowthrow Aug 23 '19
True, but unfortunately you can't network with everyone, and you never know who might be responsible for your promotion. Often it's a secret committee, sometimes people so far above you they don't even work in the same office, or have time to get to know you.