I've been an IC for most of my 10+ year career. I make decent money $400k+ and am a respected IC
Most of my friends have moved on to Doordash, Facebook, LinkedIn, Uber and became managers and senior managers. These are reputed companies which also pay a lot.
When I apply for jobs, leadership recruiters hand me off to the IC recruiter who'll drill me on the usual Leetcode and system design as though ICs are inferiors and the elite 'leadership recruiter' will only deal with 'leaders' aka Engineering managers and Directors.
Internally, the Big 5 Tech companies know how ICs and Managers are at the same level and one is not better than the other. But when you go out in the world outside of these places, I feel somehow that I need to move into management aka 'leadership' roles to be taken seriously
#microsoft #management #facebook #google
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So would you go be a manager ?
Talk to your manager and skip and build a plan to be a manager. Smh ...
I used to manage two teams and it was a huge pain in the ass , decided it’s not for me and I don’t enjoy it one bit - hired my new manager and my skip to replace me in the manager duties and continued as an IC
Meanwhile a friend of mine at that company who did want to be a manager holds the title “vp” bullshit - and makes less then half then me... good for him...
Do whatever you enjoy and will keep you relevant for a long time.