I was a manager for about 9 months before being laid off. The goal was to attain power but also work on the huge backlog of work we had. I wanted to use the pow

I was a manager for about 9 months before being laid off. The goal was to attain power but also work on the huge backlog of work we had. I wanted to use the power to block outside forces that would push my engineers in the wrong direction or remove their focus for investigating things like platform bugs. What ended up happening was that the project work even though completed was used to gaslight me for 6 months as breaking the platform and causing bugs. Issues that infra team promised to “fix later”. Go ahead code when you’re a manager it can be effective, but be careful when working with outside ineffective teams they will put blame on you if they can. Management is political and once you start making moves that outshine other teams, opposition will come out of the wood work to bring you back to their level of unhappiness. The trick to identifying this is when people start naming you at meetings you aren’t in. It might be good things they are saying but that may shift as the good things well dries up.