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Traditional career ladders are broken

Name: Traditional career ladders are broken
Uploaded: 2024-03-20T14:00:39Z
Channel: Peter Yang
Description: This is a YouTube video titled "Traditional career ladders are broken" containing a monologue or talk discussing the limitations of traditional job…

20 Mar 2024

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This is a YouTube video titled "Traditional career ladders are broken" containing a monologue or talk discussing the limitations of traditional job ladders, using the example of Shopify's bifurcated job levels into management and crafter tracks. The speaker critiques conventional hierarchical structures and explains alternative promotion paths that do not require managing people. The content appears to be a single-speaker presentation or commentary without indication of multiple participants or the involvement of Peter Yang.

Traditional job ladders that essentially everyone stole from the army post World War II are just totally broken. They're just broken. Right. Like, you understand why in the army, you wouldn't want a general that has no direct reports. That would make no sense in an army. But most things aren't the armies, right? So one of the things we've done is we actually completely bifurcated job levels at Shopify. So there's a management track and a crafter track, and they both go up to the same levels. So in order to get promoted and get more money, more responsibility, broader scope, you don't need more people. Right. So you can actually. And those are like, it's incredibly difficult to do this because most systems aren't designed to do this. Right.