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I think that's the optimal EM career path TBH. It's a shame many companies don't have an official middle-to- manager switch mechanism.

If you want to build a decent team, you really have to relax your grip on the tech part. You don't fix every problem yourself, but have someone who can fix it available. Otherwise,…

But then again, c++ hft and payment processing aren't exactly low-stress jobs either

I even think this is sometimes in good faith, as in "this is some serious shot, better handle it myself to avoid failure". My favorite pattern is what I call "code sheriff" lead, w…

Good point on the control over your promotions, it's something I experienced when moving into an EM role. Banging my head until hitting an actual growth team. I come from Russia, w…

Thanks for the feedback! I must say I've never worked in real big tech, and I've never worked with an IC beyond staff level. I'd imagine promotions to principal / fellow are quite …

Man, people have a hard time talking to each other indeed. I might have to resort to some silly kindergarten games to make that happen

Not saying management is harder than engineering, at all. It's just another nice big area to learn something new. Big companies tend to be quite prescriptive about role boundaries,…

I've also seen horrible engineers whose code made entire teams miserable become amazing managers tho

Well, it's well known that to become a team lead you must eat the previous team lead) To be fair, some managers over-optimize to protect against people undermining them, not sharin…

I haven't had any luck applying to leadership positions without prior experience. Your best bet is finding a fast-growing product: when the team triples, you'll need some new manag…