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Where I work, most senior engineers report into managers that have same pay grade. This squashes any allure of switching to managerial track for more money, be
by pcurve 10y ago
Where I work, most senior engineers report into managers that have same pay grade. This squashes any allure of switching to managerial track for more money, because in many cases, it's not.
You can crap on managers all you want, but a big chunk of their job is soul-crushing work that most engineers wouldn't touch with 10 foot poles.
With that said, it doesn't have to be one or the other. There are IT managers that are highly effective as people manager and are technical. They are rare breeds, yet they're paid the same as managers that are not very technical.
By the time they get recognized and promoted, they're saddled with too big a team and responsibilities that their technical skill is no longer of much use.
- js8 10y agoWhere I work it is kinda similar, but the fact still is that becoming a manager is often faster way to get promoted. Partly because, exactly as you say, not many people want to do it. They recommend pay drop in the article as a solution, but nobody really wants that, despite the fact that it would often be meritocratic. I think human societies ultimately do not want meritocracy too much.