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They don't have to spend 100% of their time coding. Why not 50%? If you spend half your 40 hours a week coding, after presumably having had a career in engineer
by halfmatthalfcat 6y ago
They don't have to spend 100% of their time coding. Why not 50%? If you spend half your 40 hours a week coding, after presumably having had a career in engineering as a developer in the past, coding half the time will continue to support your technical knowledge well into the future.
I refuse to believe that managers shouldn't code. Actual managerial tasks do not take up that much time. Like I said in a previous comment, in my experience (as a manager), managerial tasks take up maybe 20% of my time per week. What's going on with the other 80%? I'd be bored out of my mind if I wasn't coding as much as I currently am.
- marcinzm 6y agoI've written in another post where I spend 80% of my management time. I could cut it down to 20% but then I'd be building up the management version of technical debt. As I see it, there's a lot of things you don't have to do but doing them makes your team function better in the medium and long term.
- ammanley 6y agoRead this, and it gave me a lot of clarify and appreciation for my own manager. Thank you for adding this. You sound like you've got a balanced perspective on the engineering manager experience.
- _ek94 6y agoAs someone who has been managed both through traditional management techniques and a manager who mostly coded, I could not disagree more.
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