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The flip side is that it seems very difficult to find competent coders that are both competent at and interested in managing other people. Good coders are expe
by smallnamespace 9y ago
The flip side is that it seems very difficult to find competent coders that are both competent at and interested in managing other people.
Good coders are expensive and rare; paying an even larger premium for a good technical manager is so painful for the bean counters that they inevitably push non-technical people into that middle management role.
- troels 9y agoI'll wager to say that a good technical manager need not be a stellar coder. I've worked with people who were "business" people on the face of it - went to business school, had a career of management/administrative positions etc., but who had a deep technical understanding. All of them had at some point veered in the direction of becoming a programmer, but then changed course. I'm sure they would have become fine programmers, but they just chose not to.
- usgroup 9y agoThink you might be talking about founders here.
- sokoloff 9y agoI wonder how much of that might be people who realize they will never be a truly world-class technologist, and so try management as a path where they might make their next career progression. (IOW, a scheme on the part of the new manager not the bean counter, or at least a symbiotic scheming.)