> If you were a good IC, you got made a manager I’ve been here for 8 years, and never known that to be true. At most, higher IC levels are expected to do more

> If you were a good IC, you got made a manager I’ve been here for 8 years, and never known that to be true. At most, higher IC levels are expected to do more “direction setting” work (ie, writing a technical design doc for your team to follow, rather than writing all the code by yourself), but that’s still distinct from “management”