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Wow, that's an insane request for a director. Even at the management level, unless you have a specific, obvious "dual role", this borders on inappropriate. The
by P_I_Staker 4y ago
Wow, that's an insane request for a director. Even at the management level, unless you have a specific, obvious "dual role", this borders on inappropriate.
The company in the first case was the closest to correct. If you really weren't sacrificing your commitments, then they're being unreasonable, but I can say I understand their perspective.
So many engineers move to management, yet want to remain "hands on", and won't let go. It's obnoxious and frustrating, when they inevitably have their heads spinning from meeting after meeting, and no time remaining, but still insist on trying to help.
Simply looking at code output and calling it a problem to produce too much is hilariously shortsighted, but I can see how someone with some bad experiences could trend in that direction.
- pastaguy1 4y ago> So many engineers move to management, yet want to remain "hands on", and won't let go. It's obnoxious and frustrating, when they inevitably have their heads spinning from meeting after meeting, and no time remaining, but still insist on trying to help. Oh god, I hate this. The thing that happens most often in my experience is they have time to do the "fun parts" of something, and then leave others with all the testing, paperwork, bug fixing, etc, to make their update into something "real".
- bch 4y ago[…] Now draw the rest of the owl.
- trashface 4y agoSome go into management for pay and promotions, not because they want to. Long term, IC is often a dead end. Especially at mismanaged companies, which are, (see this post) not exactly uncommon.
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