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In all my years working in this industry I've seen very no boomerang promotions. Definitely not in the same team. In the same team of course, if you leave your current and future positions are taken by others, there is little logic for anyone to bring you in at a higher level.

Plus most shops will filter you out a resume screening level itself.




There was actually a fairly high profile boomerang in the news last year - and at Amazon, no less - Sukumar Rathnam went from engineering manager at Amazon to CTO at Uber to VP of e-commerce services at Amazon, all in the span of less than two years.




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