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They might. But it could easily take a few years, during which time they'll very likely be a mediocre to poor manager. Expecting someone with five years of eng
by TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
They might. But it could easily take a few years, during which time they'll very likely be a mediocre to poor manager.
Expecting someone with five years of engineering experience to become an effective manager overnight - often with no training or mentorship at all - makes as much sense as expecting an intern to operate at the same level as a senior on Day 1.
Even really smart people with multiple talents need more of a warm up than that. And most people are neither that smart nor that talented.
- skohan 6y agoBut that's true of non-technical people too right? So the question is if you as an organization are considering investing a year or two to develop a manager, why not start with a subject matter expert?
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- datavirtue 6y agoHopefully it is never an overnight switch and the engineer's career goals are respected. Any non-shite company is going to have engineers taking on leadership responsibilities at various levels they are comfortable with before turning them full loose. In some companies, like Gore Industries, and other employee owned entities the engineers and operations people organically select their own supervisors by consensus and set pay democratically. I have been in environments that did that without explicit structure even, and it was very productive. Unsurprisingly,none of those were publicly traded.
- samvher 6y agoThat sounds fantastic, I wished it was easy to find places like that.
- datavirtue 6y agoPure luck.