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Yes -- within engineering typically! That is a the role of a PE/Staff Eng.
by nostrebored 5y ago
Yes -- within engineering typically! That is a the role of a PE/Staff Eng.
- Jensson 5y agoRight, and in an engineering lead organization the PM etc are subordinate to engineers. Their job is to research the market and present the results to engineers so engineers can better understand what to build. This is opposite to non-engineers leading and hiring engineers to build the product they want. Ultimately the end result is the same, its just creates a different perspective. So it is easy to evaluate companies like this. Did technical people hire business people to do those tasks for them? Or did business people hire technical people to create a product for them? The first is engineering lead, the second is the standard enterprise.
- nostrebored 5y agoI have never seen a company operate at scale the way you're suggesting. Making business decisions is not engineering core competency. The most common reporting line I've seen (working at tech companies that you would know and recognize immediately) is director -> { sdm, pm-t } where the director is typically promoted from one of those roles. There is an insulation layer between product and engineering, and as levels progress the line between pm-t and sdm blurs significantly.