What is influence across teams?

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own

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Several of the larger companies I’ve worked at have some reference to, “Influence across teams?” included in their promotion guidelines for senior engineers. The first time I read the phrase I thought it seemed very intuitive, but then I asked myself if I was ready for promotion and as I lined up my work to the promotion criteria I thought (and asked my manager), “Define…