Comment by Esophagus4

Well said - most people don’t realize there is a lot of overlap between good management skills and good senior engineering skills.

Specifically, getting people to follow your direction, giving and receiving difficult feedback, growing people, being able to engage thoughtfully in stressful conversations…

Engineers that don’t have these and believe their technical chops are the only thing that matters are extremely limited in their careers.

I have bounced a technically excellent staff level engineer off my team for this reason.

There are very few roles in tech for people to sit in a corner by themselves and write code, especially as you get to more senior roles.