In my experience, when there is a position of Engineering Manager, this person is almost never directly involved with the tech. Usually companies wants them to

In my experience, when there is a position of Engineering Manager, this person is almost never directly involved with the tech. Usually companies wants them to be pure manager and have dedicated staff/principal/architect for the tech decisions, reviews, growing the team. The EM is supposed to do the administrative part: yearly evals, hiring, firing, reporting, planning, and organize the development (like forcing scrum; having good practices for PR; using issue tracker in a specific way,...)