Your HR department doesn’t control the budget. They carry out directives from their management. This is endemic across the industry from small companies to in my experience of n=1 at BigTech.
Even there people get better offers coming in externally than they do an internal promotion.
On a related note, it was also easier coming in as an L6 (senior) than it was to get promoted from an L5 to an L6.
Even there people get better offers coming in externally than they do an internal promotion.
On a related note, it was also easier coming in as an L6 (senior) than it was to get promoted from an L5 to an L6.