Things We Learned Creating Technology Career Steps

The article shares insights from Spotify's journey in creating a career progression framework for individual contributors, highlighting the challenges of defining career growth through behaviors rather than achievements. Key lessons include the importance of treating such an initiative as a culture change effort, involving increasingly larger groups in feedback, and carefully considering the long-term support and communication needed to successfully implement a new career development system. These insights provide valuable guidance for organizations looking to establish or improve their own engineering career frameworks.