If you want influence at your company, transform into a product owner. If you want to stay a coder, I think in most companies you can't expect to have any real

If you want influence at your company, transform into a product owner. If you want to stay a coder, I think in most companies you can't expect to have any real say. I think most companies would love to have more technical product owners that can't be bullshitted by the dev team. Fake it till you make it!