Experience v/s Promotion

Question

What's the minimum experience required when it comes to getting promoted from Senior to Lead or Lead to Manager? Is experience matters when it comes to getting promoted or skills?

Rajanikant Hawaldar · Answer

Its depends on companies standards, to become Senior Enginer : Min 3 to 4 years required, Lead : Min 5 to 8 years, Architect : Min 8 to 12 Years of experience needed. Is experience matters when it comes to getting promoted or skills? Answer: Both matters. In small/medium companies, they will promote their employee sooner because their pay scale is less, they want their employee to stay longer with them, etc reasons. Lets say your working MNC, you have 3 year of exp and your expert in your team and your helping everyone, including lead etc with your work but campany will not promote you till your experience meets the standards, only thing is your manager will gives you more hike. Lets assume you reached 5 year of experience and few of your collegues aslo reached 5 years then your manager will consider you for technically leading team because you helped everyone in team with your work he know your skill sets and how expert you are and your colleagues has to work under you even though they 5 years of experience. I hope you understand how experience and skills matters!

Sachin Singh · Answer

There are two things, one is true and practical, and the other is imagination, the truth is the first thing that gives you the entry to a new company is Experience, it doesn't matter how skillful you are, the first question that you will encounter is how many years of experience do you have. If you have a huge skill and suppose you do freelancing then also you can't say you have any experience because most companies will ask you to show the salary sleep of the last three months of your last job. so, in India, a full-time job only is considered as experience and that is what matters. But if you are really skillful then you can earn a Microsoft trainer certificate, which makes you eligible as a trainer. And this is the reality.

Gurpreet Arora · Answer

Skills and how you make decision towards team Matters Most

Mukesh Depani · Answer

Not necessary, If you have skills with the current technologies then you will get promoted anytime. Experience has value, only when you are working in a related field and your past experience is updated to the latest technologies. On the other hand, the experience has less value, when you are outdated on technology. And yes, the knowledge and technical skills are required for promotion.

Salman Beg · Answer

I dont think so everytime experience matters. Skills matter the most and if you have good skill then easily you can be promoted. Thanks