I’ve got around a year to change my career. I’ve not coded forever and I’m mainly a presales person / storyteller who’s also leading people. I’ve got a general sense for tools, I’m strong on dev processes. Goal is Engineering Manager. How do I do this? What do I focus on? TC 350.
“I’ve got a general sense of tools, I’m strong on dev processes “ - code out of this grossly wrong assumption. If you have not coded for long time, you have absolutely no idea what a real dev process looks like. You would do a favour to yourself by starting to code and take up easy big fixes on open source projects . Understand how “easy” it is to raise a PR, get it reviewed by random people and then get it accepted. Much of the reason why people hate their Engg managers is the believe of Managers that they know many things . Most of those are actually outdated and no more relevant. You can build up a good profile through open source contributions visible to tier one companies and then you can give it a shot.
I thought I already started very humble, but obviously not humble enough. Do you think it’s doable at all?
Of course it is doable. Give it all and Best of luck. But please try to bump up your exposure to dev roles.