Moving to Eng Mgr

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hoeseeaye
Apr 17, 2018 11 Comments

Any advice to an eng looking to move to management? Refuse to move into mgmt at Oracle, but interviewing for eng manager jobs elsewhere. What did you wish you knew? Did you regret making the switch?

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  • Do u enjoy and thrive playing political games? Do you enjoy running from meeting to meeting? Do u enjoy having N one on ones every week? Do u enjoy NOT coding as much as when u were an IC?

    If yes, u are ready.
    Apr 17, 2018 3
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      This is the problem, most people managers think highly of themselves to believe their job is hard intellectually, but it is not. Working cleaning bathrooms also hard, but does not mean should be paid like software engineers. Neither do people managers
      Apr 18, 2018
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      Agree, most engineering managers forgot about that within 6 months on the job and become the notorious "just people managers", with high salary of course ;)
      Apr 18, 2018
  • Did you have previous eng manager experience? I thought the only way to become a manager is to work in a company as engineer first
    Apr 17, 2018 1
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    If you are not a manager before you apply to management position then you will need to tone down your tech skills to be more of management material
    Apr 17, 2018 0