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I am dying to leave the management track and go back to SDE. Pretty much every company out there bloated their ranks to include more middle managers and it beca
by upupupandaway 3y ago
I am dying to leave the management track and go back to SDE. Pretty much every company out there bloated their ranks to include more middle managers and it became an unbearable mess. After 12 years in management, though, I can't get interviews for SDE, so I am kind of stuck. Imagine writing code for a living? DREAM.
- swader999 3y agoJust taylor your experience a bit :)
- upupupandaway 3y agoThe worst thing is that I never wanted to be a manager but somehow always got pushed that way by the higher ups. I blame my background as evangelist being able to explain technical things to management. Ugh.
- hx8 3y agoI feel justified in always pushing back now.
- busterarm 3y agoFunny. I always want to put my head down and write code, but because I actually know how systems work and help everyone else out to accomplish the basics, every job ever pushes me into infrastructure roles and I end up being the organization's Brent all the time. It fucking sucks.
- bdsa 3y agoBrent?
- swader999 3y agoNot the parent but, the reference to "Brent" in this context likely comes from the book "The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT. In the book, Brent is a key IT employee who is knowledgeable and skilled, but he becomes a bottleneck because everyone relies on him to fix problems. Due to his deep knowledge and expertise, many tasks and critical issues can only be resolved by him. This reliance on Brent causes delays and inefficiencies in the organization's IT operations. The term "Brent" in the tech and DevOps community has come to symbolize a single point of failure within a team or organization.
- bdsa 3y agoThanks!