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By your logic it is hard to see how anyone technically competent could be promoted into management. Good luck with that.
by hodgesrm 11y ago
By your logic it is hard to see how anyone technically competent could be promoted into management. Good luck with that.
- sokoloff 11y ago"hired as" was intentionally chosen wording. IME, the easiest path is within a company, not in a new hire situation. You take someone with demonstrated technical skill/credibility, a track record of success, and a desire to lead and you give them progressively more management tasks, culminating in a formal role change to manager. They already know the company, the team, the codebase, the business, etc. and it's much easier for them to step back into a pure technical role if it doesn't work out or if they hate it. I've had extremely "good luck with that". It's much riskier to take a fresh new hire with no management experience into a tech manager role at a new-to-them company.