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Clarify Typical PM Promotion Criteria

Sam White requested to merge clarify-pm-promotion-expectations into master

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This MR makes the following changes:

  • Adds information about requirements for PMs to be promoted
  • Restructures the CDF for Individual Contributor Product Managers section
    • Breaks the section out by evaluation categories
    • Combines the Competencies with the CDF expectations
  • Cleans up the page by making a few other minor formatting changes and by removing some text that is no longer relevant

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Edited by Sam White

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