The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

charity.wtf charity wtf's about technology, databases, startups, engineering management, and whiskey. Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thinking about being a manager. I really like engineering, but I feel like I’m just solving the same problems over and over

[efcl]

エンジニア/マネージャーの振り子

[isrc]

There’s nothing worse than reporting to someone forced into managing. It isn’t a promotion, so you don’t have any status to give up. Do it as long as it makes you happy, and the people around you happy. Then stop. Go back to building things. Wait til you get that itch again.

[Songmu]

ICとEMどっちがいいとかじゃなくて、行き来できると良いよね、というのと思っていて、何か書こうと思ったけど、これに全て書かれていた。

[ohbarye]

“There’s nothing worse than reporting to someone forced into managing.”

[koogawa]

“Management is not a promotion, management is a change of profession.” Yeah