Comment by arnvald

> Not even in salary in many places

What needs to die is this trope. Few places cut salaries when people move to EM role. This might be true for some big tech companies, but even then it's only in the beginning. If you look at companies that have unified levels for SDEs and EMs (Google, Amazon), you can see that on the same level EMs have slightly higher TC.

Not to mention that there's a whole world outside of big tech where moving to management is considered a promotion (and often the only way to grow, because dual career ladder is not implemented everywhere). The cases where EMs make more than SDEs are really way more common than the reverse situation.