agreed. it’s at best sideways, but in reality, it’s downward for a time. nobody will necessarily respect your opinion as management in an org just because you’ve been promoted.
The article actually does distinguish between “moving up” and “switching from engineering to management”. It’s the title of the link here on lobste.rs that’s misleading.
By the way… Given that the author’s name is Slavic, this is most likely comes from our languages’ coordination of pronouns with the grammatical gender of the preceding word. In Russian/Ukrainian/Belorussian the word “engineer” is of male gender grammatically, so it’s inevitably followed by “he”.
I don’t think that direction is “up” ;)
agreed. it’s at best sideways, but in reality, it’s downward for a time. nobody will necessarily respect your opinion as management in an org just because you’ve been promoted.
The article actually does distinguish between “moving up” and “switching from engineering to management”. It’s the title of the link here on lobste.rs that’s misleading.
Perhaps, this is a personal opinion of mine. I consider both moving to a Software Architect position or Management position as going up.
Minor nitpick in an otherwise excellent article.
I would encourage using they instead of “he”. Small change but makes quite a lot of difference.
By the way… Given that the author’s name is Slavic, this is most likely comes from our languages’ coordination of pronouns with the grammatical gender of the preceding word. In Russian/Ukrainian/Belorussian the word “engineer” is of male gender grammatically, so it’s inevitably followed by “he”.
Interesting. I didn’t know that. Thanks!
Hey, sure! Thanks for the heads up
in my experience, it is at least an upwards move in terms of pay (not to equivocate that with worth).
Why is this tagged programming?