I went back to IC at a bigger company, make more money, and spend a lot more time with my family. The perspective from being a manager helps me understand how to work with my management. I have turned down a couple of manager roles in my current company since then.
Yeah I am not sure of the advantages of going the manager-path either. Unless perhaps you break above a certain threshold after some years. Because at a lot of managerial roles you get to work a hell of a lot more, without much more compensation and perhaps even less. So it seems like a tough sell unless you are really more interested in the managerial work.
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I went back to IC at a bigger company, make more money, and spend a lot more time with my family. The perspective from being a manager helps me understand how to work with my management. I have turned down a couple of manager roles in my current company since then.
Yeah I am not sure of the advantages of going the manager-path either. Unless perhaps you break above a certain threshold after some years. Because at a lot of managerial roles you get to work a hell of a lot more, without much more compensation and perhaps even less. So it seems like a tough sell unless you are really more interested in the managerial work.
I would imagine the advantages of manager roles are highly context dependent.
Being a manager when everything works well is great. When everythings falling apart, awful.
I would imagine the advantages of manager roles are highly context depedent.
Being a manager when everything works well is great.
Sorry for stupid question but What's IC?
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