[bigbacaloa]

"What you give up when moving into engineering management" = your soul.

[tra3]

That’s a little dramatic.

As a manager you deal with people. As an IC you also deal with people but to a smaller degree. If you can handle dealing with people you stand to make more money. It’s a job.

[stn_za]

Luckily management is not the requirement for more money nowadays. Most Staff/Principle and even Senior engineers are on equal footing (and often more) with managers in terms of salary.

At least in my country.

[xvilka]

And it's good since often it requires far more skill than managing.

[Matthias247]

As an engineer on those level you are also mostly dealing with how to align a huge group of people - you are just not required with hiring, compensation, etc.

[kevsim]

For me, it was the exact opposite. It was a feeling of "finally, this is what I'm supposed to be doing". It takes all sorts, as they say.