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Comment by jigneshdarji91

1 year ago

As a Staff Eng, I strongly related to this. At big tech in Silicon Valley, the Tech Lead archetype does tend to do all the Project Management and, depending on whether your team can afford a Product Manager (eg. Infra team), some or all of the Product Management.

IMO, it's a little unfortunate from a productivity perspective that you have a high performing Engineer also running daily/weekly syncs, doing stakeholder management, and doing upwards management for resourcing. From a personal learning perspective, it's great though. You, as Tech Lead, learn and hone a broader set of skills and not only the Architect or Senior Engineer skillset.