{"id":1038059,"date":"2026-09-23T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038059"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:07:59","slug":"meta-engineer-reached-a-4-3-million-a-year-level-then-asked-for-a-demotion-the-thrill-faded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/meta-engineer-reached-a-4-3-million-a-year-level-then-asked-for-a-demotion-the-thrill-faded\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta engineer reached a $4.3 million-a-year level, then asked for a demotion: \u2018The thrill\u2019 faded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many technology professionals, reaching the highest levels of engineering is considered the ultimate career milestone. For Philip Su, however, getting there eventually made him question whether climbing further was worth it, Business Insider reported.<\/p>\n<p>Su, who reached the prestigious \u201cdistinguished engineer\u201d or IC9 level at Meta and OpenAI, said on \u201cThe Peterman Pod\u201d podcast that promotions gradually became less rewarding as his career progressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many technology professionals, reaching the highest levels of engineering is considered the ultimate career milestone. For Philip Su, however, getting there eventually made him question whether climbing further was worth it, Business Insider reported. Su, who reached the prestigious \u201cdistinguished engineer\u201d or IC9 level at Meta and OpenAI, said on \u201cThe Peterman Pod\u201d podcast that promotions gradually became less rewarding as his career progressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038060,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038059\/revisions\/1038060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}