Analysis Finds DevOps Engineers Are Being Promoted Faster
DevOps.com, Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
An analysis of a data set collected by SignalFire, a platform provider for recruiting employees, finds that IT professionals specializing in areas such as DevOps move into leadership roles within their organizations within two to three years.
Additionally, the analysis finds that engineers with degrees from top-tier schools are promoted 22% faster. However, most engineers with college degrees are on a par with one another by the eighth year of their career regardless of whether they have a degree or not, according to the report.
On average, it takes 3.07 years for graduates from a top-tier school to reach a senior position, compared to 5.37 years for graduates from other schools. Interestingly, the report also notes that senior engineers with no college degree are reaching senior positions in slightly more time, which suggests that by skipping four years of college altogether they may attain those positions at a younger age. Overall, the analysis finds that 47% of the DevOps engineers tracked have no formal degrees.