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I don't think that's true, especially since it was specifically called out that this glue work is what senior engineers do a lot of.

To me senior engineers deal with ambiguity and unclear ownership in a decisive way and that sounds exactly like what the author was doing. I can easily see how you would think delivering on metrics senior engineers on evaluated on(getting things out the door) would mean advancement as an engineer.

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This is very true - at one point when I worked at Amazon, my manager told me that if I was already the next level, I'd easily be exceeding expectations. But the work I was doing wouldn't actually get me there.

It ran contrary to what I had been told - do the work of the next level, and you'll be promoted to that level. It was tough adjusting, and I ended up moving into management. I got lucky in that I enjoy it, but I do miss doing the hands on work from time-to-time.

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