After a handful of years into my dev career, i moved to management, and i have regretted it especially the last few years. I have been in either been a team manager or prod. manager (indiovidual contrib.) role the last 15 or so years...and now wish i could go back to some sort of dev. role...but the concern i have is rusty coding joints (even though i do fun scripting on the side on the weekends) and likely a non-trivial salary cut.
@aenis While i did not reach CTO level at a 40bn company, i did play a similar role once at a small non-profit, and some parts were fulfilling but others were def. not - at lewast for me. However, you said it best when you stated, "I am still the happiest when I have time to code and build stuff". I dislike so many meetings, hate work politics, but the 2 areas where i shine and/or am fulfilled are coaching team members, and building stuff (coding, etc.)! Man, i miss more directly building stuff!
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After a handful of years into my dev career, i moved to management, and i have regretted it especially the last few years. I have been in either been a team manager or prod. manager (indiovidual contrib.) role the last 15 or so years...and now wish i could go back to some sort of dev. role...but the concern i have is rusty coding joints (even though i do fun scripting on the side on the weekends) and likely a non-trivial salary cut.
@aenis While i did not reach CTO level at a 40bn company, i did play a similar role once at a small non-profit, and some parts were fulfilling but others were def. not - at lewast for me. However, you said it best when you stated, "I am still the happiest when I have time to code and build stuff". I dislike so many meetings, hate work politics, but the 2 areas where i shine and/or am fulfilled are coaching team members, and building stuff (coding, etc.)! Man, i miss more directly building stuff!