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Title: Engineering Management: The Pendulum or the Ladder
Authors: charity.wtf
Category: articles
Number of Highlights: 4
Source URL: https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/
Date: 2024-02-16
Last Highlighted: 2024-02-16
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These are not unlike the decisions every engineer ends up making about whether to go deep or go broad, whether to specialize or be a generalist. The problem is that both engineers and managers often make these career choices with very little information — or even awareness that they are doing it.
Tags: career, technology
Lots of people have the mindset that once they become an engineering manager, they should just go from gig to gig as an engineering manager who manages other engineers: that’s who they are now. But this is actually a very fragile place to sit long-term, as we’ll discuss further on in this piece.
Tags: management, technology
Hopefully you have already gathered that management is a career change, not a promotion, and you’re aware that nobody is very good at it when they first start.
Tags: career, management
It will exhaust you mentally and emotionally in the weirdest ways for much longer than you think it should. You’ll be tired a lot, and you’ll miss feeling like you’re good at something (anything).
Tags: management