This is bizarro world for me because to this day we're still fighting to have technical career progression outside of management. Excluding big companies there

This is bizarro world for me because to this day we're still fighting to have technical career progression outside of management. Excluding big companies there is no path forward after a certain level. Good programmers are good programmers and more often than not make shitty managers, they're separate skills. The best managers I had were at most ok programmers.