Career Paths: Technical or Management?

The new engineer hired into a company's engineering organization can expect to enter at a low level and then work his/her way up through a progression of increasing levels of responsibility according to his/her ability and performance. Unless the graduate is one of those extremely rare individuals who has the drive, the in-depth knowledge, a very large bank account balance or sponsor, and a novel new concept to market, most will enter at the lowest level in the particular corporate defined engineering structure. Typical titles would be junior engineer or associate engineer.