it's not at all unusual for you to do less software development the higher up you go on the ladder, especially if you have direct reports. Strategy, architectur

it's not at all unusual for you to do less software development the higher up you go on the ladder, especially if you have direct reports. Strategy, architecture, planning, removing blocks for others, these are all valuable parts of software engineering work at a large firm. Big organizations create a kind of work all of their own that has to do just with managing the workings of the organization itself and that work can't be avoided.