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Try a medium-sized company; it might be more flexible with hiring "requirements" and be willing to look at the time you spent leading other engineers. Be prepar

Try a medium-sized company; it might be more flexible with hiring "requirements" and be willing to look at the time you spent leading other engineers. Be prepared to talk about how you mentored them, resolving intra-team differences, etc. Sometimes you have to move away in order to move up, especially if you've been pigeon-holed as just a senior developer. Another company will view you through fresh eyes, with an unbiased perspective.

philjr 13y ago
Just to echo this, I've hired folks in who were team leads / senior engineers in other companies who wanted to get in to management but their companies were too small and not growing. So we hired them as individual contributors and promoted them as the team got bigger.