And yet, I've run across countless "managers" who were previously developers, who had no credentials for management other than wanting to be a manager. Their "

And yet, I've run across countless "managers" who were previously developers, who had no credentials for management other than wanting to be a manager. Their "training" was to take some sort of corporate HR-provided course to "certify" them, and then being put in charge of other developers. While there have been a few who weren't completely toxic, the vast majority had no idea what they were doing, struggled mightily, and had very unhappy teams. > You are being a bit ignorant, frankly, grossly generalizing a career it sounds like you don't understand well. Yeah, I do understand it well. I had some management experience early on, and was actually good at it, but I hated it because it made me stop doing actual software development.