Hello, I’ve had 3 internships at FAANG where I had to lead projects and showed lots of leadership (something all my managers commented on) I also organized a big hackathon at my university and started a company that had 3 employees which shows more leadership. Cumulatively all my internships is probably around 2 YoE. Is this enough for an engineering manager position out of school? If so which companies would offer best chance for manager level role? Also would ideally like $250-300k+ since Glassdoor shows engineering managers make around there.
Manager of what? People or processes? And if people, do you mean developers?
Yes engineering manager, leading and coaching developers
You can ask, but chances are they’ll want you to prove yourself before giving you a management position like that. I mean: imagine a team with many senior people finding themselves a manager who’s a kid straight out of college...
LOL. No. Go work at a company as an IC. Right now you have very limited understanding of what it means to be part of the team and what it means to help ICs build their career.
Does it help that I also read and fully understood the essential Drucker?
Yeah and I read my college science book and fully understand it, but does that make me Einstein?
I seriously hope you are trolling
Definetely. Facebook. TC would be around 450k. Just ask for it to the recruiter and you are good to go mate
Join as an IC. If showing leadership you’ll get to lead projects very soon. Grow as a tech lead, bigger team/more complex project/etc. Then ask the same question in a few years. Look at the career ladders, M0 = E5, M1 = E6. You are on E3 right now. Will be hard to get hired as an M0/M1 from the outside tbh, esp w not much mngmt experience. Btw, compensation is no different btw IC and Mngr on these levels until you reach director.
But I’d rather lead teams now - my mentor said I have a lot of leadership potential. I feel like it will be wasted by being an IC
With an opinion like that you certainly should not be a manager yet
What did you smoke today?
Wow. Get over yourself...
No one wants you as a manager fresh from school. You think you know stuff, but you don't. You've been working in a bubble.
Wow that’s just hurtful.
If you call that hurtful, you have no clue about what to expect as a manager.
Lol, led projects in your internship? Who did you lead? Your intern manager?
Would you want to have a new grad manager?
If she was as smart and hardworking as me then yes.
Being a manager is much more than hard work. The fact that you don’t know that tells me you are at least 5 years out