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Engineering Career Ladder
An appraisal mapped to engineering expectations — technical depth, delivery, collaboration and influence.
20 questions ~15 min to complete Self + manager
What's included
- Expectations engineers recognise
- Technical and collaboration skills together
- A clear promotion-readiness signal
Areas rated
- Technical depth
- Delivery
- Collaboration
- Influence
- Product sense
- Intended for
- Engineering · Self and manager appraisal
- Written for
- UK-wide
- Version
- Version 1
- Content reviewed
- 18 October 2026
Includes future updates to this pack. Updates are added as a new template version; your past reviews never change.
What respondents see
1 of 2
Required
Writes code that is clear, tested and easy for others to change.
Not yetRole model
All 20 questions
Every question in version 1, in order. Rating questions use a 1–5 scale; written questions leave room for the employee and manager to respond.
Technical depth
- 1Writes code that is clear, tested and easy for others to change.Rating: Not yet to Role model
- 2Understands the systems they work in, including their failure modes.Rating: Not yet to Role model
- 3Makes sound design decisions and explains the trade-offs.Rating: Not yet to Role model
Delivery
- 4Breaks work down and delivers in small, safe increments.Rating: Not yet to Role model
- 5Estimates realistically and flags slippage early.Rating: Not yet to Role model
- 6Owns problems in production through to resolution.Rating: Not yet to Role model
Collaboration
- 7Gives thoughtful, kind code reviews.Rating: Not yet to Role model
- 8Works effectively with product, design and other teams.Rating: Not yet to Role model
Influence
- 9Shares knowledge through docs, talks or pairing.Rating: Not yet to Role model
- 10Improves how the team works, not just what it ships.Rating: Not yet to Role model
- 11Mentors others and raises the bar around them.Rating: Not yet to Role model
Product sense
- 12Understands the user problem behind the work.Rating: Not yet to Role model
Reflection and next steps
- 13What was the most significant technical contribution this year?Written
- 14Describe a hard problem and how it was approached.Written · optional
- 15Where has influence beyond your own work grown?Written
- 16Which technical areas should be deepened next?Written
- 17What is the gap to the next level, in your own words?Written
- 18Manager: is this person operating at the next level? What evidence supports that?Written · optional
- 19What support or opportunities would accelerate growth?Written
- 20Objectives for the next review period.Written