> Good engineers are pushed into becoming managers, because that's the only way they can get rewarded. And there's a second-order casualty of that: the people

> Good engineers are pushed into becoming managers, because that's the only way they can get rewarded. And there's a second-order casualty of that: the people who are assigned to report to such an engineer-become-manager. This happened to me on my previous job. The most brilliant programmer I've ever worked with got promoted to a manager, for the dumb reason that the company's programmer salary bands didn't go high enough for what he was (way more than) worth. As a manager he had to have headcount reporting to him, and I got assigned to be one of that headcount. He had no interest in people-managing. I didn't begrudge him for that at all - but it was clear my own career would go nowhere reporting to someone with no interest in managing, so I left that job shortly after.