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The title of this article should really be "Don’t promote your programmers into managers", which is the first sentence of a paragraph halfway through. The arti
by singron 4y ago
The title of this article should really be "Don’t promote your programmers into managers", which is the first sentence of a paragraph halfway through.
The article doesn't say to stop promoting programmers among programming roles, which would have been quite the controversial take. It's been standard practice throughout the industry for a long time to have deep IC ladders so that you don't have to promote your best ICs to management.
- mcv 4y agoLots of companies don't have those higher programming roles, though. A year ago I left a department that even refused to hire programmers even in the highest two role levels the company did have available for them, but even that highest level was lower than the highest level for scrum masters and POs. Of course they complained about retention of senior developers. I told them why. They're still not changing. The only way to get promoted to the highest engineer levels is by taking on non-technical responsibilities. Beyond that, you've got to become manager, PO or scrum master.