Today, there are incredibly bureaucratic rules and policies that make it difficult to get promoted and grow in your career. You could be stuck for 2 and sometimes 3 years doing a job you don't enjoy doing and have outgrown because you have to be in your role for a certain period of time to move ahead regardless of your performance or skills.
If you start in sales development, like one of my colleagues, you need to be there at least 2 years to get into a sales role regardless of your market or performance. When you are a Relationship manager or Account executive you are also required to be at least 3-4 years in your role to get promoted from Associate to Senior RM/AE regardless of performance or skills. Of course in the meantime the pressure is massive to get high results and also contribute through L and L which is an internal KPI - basically doing work for the management that they don't like doing or are too incompetent to do instead of actual value added to the organization.
After 6 years if you are lucky and 7 - 8 years of going through the aggravation of being in the company far away from home, where you go from Sales development if you are unlucky - all the way to a senior relationship manager or senior account executive, you finally made it and can experience first hand how difficult it is to go through the politics of getting into a leadership position:
Internally, 90% of the time, LinkedIn promotes Irish natives into markets like the Nordics, Spain, Italy, Africa, Benelux and France across all business lines as the Irish natives know each other well. DACH doesn't even have a single German speaking manager. The Irish natives also seem to deserve leadership roles regardless of knowing anything about the market or the language and since these are internal promotions they naturally lack leadership skills. Externally they hire a few native language speakers that are usually just smart enough to follow orders and old enough to never care about moving upward and thus no threat to the Irish management.
Most people that are not from Ireland, for this reason leave within 2 years as known by HR and if LinkedIn is lucky, it takes them a bit longer because it's difficult for them to get a better paying job back home. The stress, lack of development and high expectations and crazy rent prices still make them leave eventually though.
