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> "Moving from dev to manager is NOT A PROMOTION. It's a CAREER CHANGE." It's in the same field, and you're making a lot more money, and you have higher level
by ken 8y ago
> "Moving from dev to manager is NOT A PROMOTION. It's a CAREER CHANGE."
It's in the same field, and you're making a lot more money, and you have higher level responsibilities, and are maybe even working on the same team as before, right? That sounds exactly like a promotion to me.
As someone in another comment says, "In most companies unfortunately the only way to move higher in pay is the management route." This is treated by all involved as not only a promotion, but the only possible promotion.
I guess this pithy saying is meant to emphasize that you're no longer a developer, but that doesn't change the basic fact of what it is.
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- hopler 8y agoMoving from help desk to programmer is a career change not a promotion. It's a higher paying career which is why the flow is mostly unidirectional. Programmer to manager is similar, except at good companies that need good senior devs and pay for them.
- kelnos 8y agoThese things are orthogonal. What decides "career change" is that your job function changes (managing people vs. writing code) and that the skills required to be successful are significantly different. Dev to management easily fits the bill for this. The fact that you are making more and have higher level responsibilities isn't really relevant here. That can be a component of a promotion, but it can also be a component of a career change. As an aside, at many companies switching to a management position doesn't automatically mean more money or responsibility; hell, as a long-time, senior individual contributor at my company, I definitely make more than many/most managers & senior managers, and have more responsibility than some of them.