Comment by sokoloff
5 years ago
> To me it hints that Engineering MoM is not a very technical position.
Is a manager-of-managers ever a very technical position? I am one and almost nothing I do as part of that job requires any differentiated technical ability. An Excel pivot table is as a complex as I’d need to get by.
(I do technical items on the side so as to not lose my mind, but I’m not surprised by the hiring loop not being very technical.)
I’m a manager of managers at my current big tech employer and here we are still required to be quite technical. I’d think that a startup 1/25 the size would benefit from this approach, hence my surprise. I don’t know how to do pivot tables though.
Maybe a hot take: if you have a Manager-of-Managers role, you aren’t a startup any more.
There are startups with over 50 engineers you know ;) At sr manager role you are for sure not technical though even if you did get asked coding/design questions in interview loops (there are exceptions)
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