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Sounds like you got yourself promoted right up into a sales role. I mean, if you like that and are happy with it, I'm happy for you. But some people enjoy codin

• scarface_74 2y ago
  Calling me sales? You don’t have to be mean (kidding, I appreciate sales more than most developers). It’s half and half. I come in right after sales gets the customer and work with the customer to do an assessment (https://www.linkedin.com/advice/3/how-do-you-conduct-consulting-needs-assessment-consulting-advice https://www.linkedin.com/advice/3/how-do-you-conduct-consult...). They pay for this and either they can take it back and do the work themselves or pay us to do the work. If they want us to do the work, I work with sales again to come up with hours and resourcing and the customer signs another contract and then I become a technical lead over the actual implementation. But even if you look at how most tech companies work - I worked in AWS Professional Services for three years as a hands on keyboard mid level consultant (full time direct hire) - if you spend too much time doing hands on keyboard coding, you are working “below your level” this was true for SDEs too. It’s impossible for 95% of developers to even be 2x that of an average developer doing hands on keyboard work and you definitely don’t get promoted at any tech company because you code well. You have to be able to lead initiatives and work with “the business”