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"Choosing" is the keyword tricky phrase here. At my last job interview, the "what do you plan on doing 5 years from now?" question came up. After talking up t
by pcote 11y ago
"Choosing" is the keyword tricky phrase here.
At my last job interview, the "what do you plan on doing 5 years from now?" question came up. After talking up things that interested me that could fill 5 years of time, he asked me about management aspirations. I confessed that I had no personal interest.
He followed with something about how he wished it was "realistic" for himself to stay in non-managerial roles. Apparently, there are a lot of programmers out there that feel some kind of pressure to move into management at some point if they want to stay in the I.T. game.
- pjmlp 11y agoYes, even socially. Maybe some fellow countryman would speak otherwise, but in Portugal if after 40 you are not a manager of some sort, it is like you failed at it. It is also hard to avoid such situations when quite a few companies use senior developer, technical lead or technical architect as synonyms for team manager. So you only discovered what you really applied to, after being inside. After a certain age if you want to stay in development it is like dodging bullets.