In my experience, when you start with a team of great engineers who all love to build it's surprisingly rare that one of them wants to stop building and start m

In my experience, when you start with a team of great engineers who all love to build it's surprisingly rare that one of them wants to stop building and start managing. I'd actually say most of the time, by which I mean more than 50% of the time, an engineering manager is hired rather than promoted. Obviously this is anecdotal.