Build the platform or use the platform: the two Databricks data engineer tracks nobody names

Two Databricks engineers sit at adjacent desks. Same title, same pay, same words in the ladder document. Watch a year go by, and they are not doing the same job.

Both get rated strong. Both get told they're ready for more scope. Nobody says the useful thing: the evidence those two are stacking isn't interchangeable, and one of those years makes no sense on the other one's promotion packet.

In this episode:
- Why the data engineering ladder quietly forks, and why that fork is missing from every ladder document
- The five-minute question that tells you which track your last year of…