Originally posted by Srikanth Raghavan: I would like to know the hierarchical designations that is commonly implemented in the IT industry(both technical and functional) from a programmer or a tester to CEO. For eg:- Programmer -->Team Lead -->Project Manager -->??? Thank you, Srikanth It depends on organisation structure.mostly this is how they do it: You will have three main streams: 1. Delivery: Responsible for project delivery 2. Sales: Sales and Marketing 3. Technology: Grow as a technical architect/funtional consultant Any of the three will lead you up till the middle managers role.From there starts the leadership team (note: there is a difference between leadership team and management team) like Unit head, country head, VP, COO, CEO. We start like this Trainee -->Programmer -->Team Lead.From her we need to decide.

Authorize Code Autocad 2004 here. FINRA is a registered trademark of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. I thought of compiling all the various designations engineers get in IT companies, their meaning and the type of job engineers perform at various designations. I'm sure it would help many CEans working in IT companies, will work in IT companies or just curious about the hierarchy in IT companies.

The path can go like this based on the above three Team Lead-->project manager-->account manager/Group lead-->Leadership team Team Lead-->Pre-sales team(a part of Project management team)-->sales team-->Leadership team Team Lead-->Busniess analyst/Sr.BA-->funtional expert/Technical architect-->Leadership team Note: there is no hard and fast rule in any of the above. To be a part of leadership team, you need to expereince all the three streams.