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20) At most companies the only way to climb the corporate ladder is to leave IT. And the more technical the needs of the department are, the more likely the manager has never even heard of them.
Today companies insist on ALL managers having business knowledge, and the assumption is that no one can get that while working in IT.
I started my IT career as a mainframe systems programmer (before PCs) at some very large companies. They claimed to have career progression because several application programmers had left IT to work in their client departments, and had been promoted into management. Yet they had NEVER promoted any systems programmer into management. Even the systems programming departments managers were from other roles.
