[patothon]

I think the engineering management field is going to drastically change in the next 5 years (probably 2 but industry will be slower to changes in some areas). We are already seeing signs at companies like Twitter and meta.

Exciting times for EMs!

[ip26]

Are you talking about this?

managers are expected to have 20+ person teams and spend at least 20% of their time coding

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/cruel-changes-at-twitter/...

[AnotherGoodName]

Coding is a poor use of time given that it runs counter to context switching required of management. If you see someone suggest this you should make that clear. Anyone with a decent amount of experience could help back this point up should you encounter someone trying to push for this.

There's a lot of other things a manager can do outside management but engineering requires too much focus.

There is a push for managers to return to engineering full time in some companies and that's reasonable if there's an imbalance but asking managers to spend 20% of their time keeping their development environment up to date (the only thing you'll get done with the amount of context switching) is immature.

[muro]

I expect it will end up being or, rather than and.

[IlPeach]

Lol what

[n1b0m]

Care to elaborate?

[birdymcbird]

not my post but i see current USA federal reserve bank rate policy will cause slow painful end to big tech companies empire building policy. the growth religion must stop hiring endless layers of managers and ‘promoting’ good engineer from individual role to manager role. line manager with direct individual contributor report sit in useless meeting all day. zero value. if they not change this..they will die in market slowly and be replaced by new generation of companies.

[n1b0m]

Thanks, that’s an interesting point.

[patothon]

Basically this yes