Former Meta employee’s dire warning to tech professionals: “Don’t make promotions the goal… when you start to get into that mindset, you lose…”

Rong Yan, the Chief Technology Officer at HeyGen, a visual storytelling platform, is telling tech professionals to think about how they measure success in their careers. Yan talked about his time working at companies like IBM, Meta, Square, Snapchat, and HubSpot on The Peterman Pod. He has also mentored many tech professionals along the way. His advice is simple: don’t make getting promoted the most important thing.

Yan said, “Don’t make promotions the objective of your work.” He said that linking job satisfaction too closely to titles can make it harder to grow and more stressful.