I am a Devops/SRE engineer with big amount of experience but lucking leadership skills. But I am in a position where my manager driving me to that route where he wants to delegate some responsibilities to me. I also want, but don't like that at the same time. I want to force myself but it doesn't come naturally. What to do? Actually does it make sense from the compensation perspective to go to that route in Cisco? #leadership
If you purely look at it from compensation perspective, yes you need to develop some leadership skills to get to more senior levels that can get you higher pay. Once you’re promoted, you can sometimes find roles where you don’t have to use those skills as often, but typically you’d still need to develop and demonstrate those skills in order to get promoted in the first place. Depending on your company policy though, you don’t always “have to” shoot for further promotions. If you’re happy where you are and don’t want to take on more responsibilities, you should just have a conversation with your manager. If you’re already at terminal level (typically that’s L5 in most companies), it should be totally your choice.
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Try for a couple of years and see if you like it? If you don’t, move back?
There is a drawback. If you don't keep up with the trends, and technologies you will not find yourself in the same position after you move back. And with leadership you mostly spend time managing people, you don't have real-time to work on tech problems
@cisco I'm in the same position as you and the same thought keeps me from going into management. It seems like in devops the trends move faster than in other niches- every few years there's a brand new technology to master and it's easy to fall behind if you're not hands on.