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If you're starting to do technical management after only 2 or 3 years working as a coder, I would say that's a bad move. Project management, people management - all fine, but it's extremely unlikely you have the depth of experience required to be providing technical direction for any kind of a large project

[walshemj]

And with only 2 years of programming its unlikely that you will have developed enough soft people skills.

[seestheday]

I'd argue that these skills are only tangentially related. Despite what others experiences are with MBA types, one of my best managers ever was a very smart recent MBA grad with no programming experience.

He cared deeply for the team, set up growth paths for everyone that wanted them, acted as a crap umbrella when shit hit the fan, praised publicly and provided very constructive criticism in private.

[walshemj]

was this a proper MBA ie 35 or so with a decade or more of work experience before doing their MBA.

A lot of people seem to do BS/BA->MBA with no work experience prior to the MBA as away of dodging immigration hassles

[seestheday]

Straight out of school. Hour was at least a year younger than I was.