Managing people is such a wildly different skillset compared to engineering that it still puzzles me the former is the assumed "next step" for an engineer. Mana

Managing people is such a wildly different skillset compared to engineering that it still puzzles me the former is the assumed "next step" for an engineer. Managing engineers is a facilitating job and should be viewed (and paid) as such. Companies valuing a principle engineer lower than the person managing the day to day of that engineer is a crazy bit of corporate legacy.