The Career Stage Bullseye

Eugene Polonsky
4 min readAug 15, 2020

Ever wondered what it’ll take to get you to the next level in your career? I’ve written several posts analyzing different facets of this question (links below), but today I want to talk about a diagram a manager at Microsoft drew for me at our first 1:1. I’ve used this diagram since, and it had never led me astray.

The Career Stage Bullseye

Notes:

  1. for brevity’s sake I will omit modifiers like “typically, generally…

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Eugene Polonsky

Eugene Polonsky is a 24-year veteran in the IT field. When not writing about management, he runs a team at IMDb, plays with his kids, and writes bad fiction.