Comment by denkmoon
21 hours ago
In my experience people mostly become managers because that's the next step to more money and there is no other next step to more money. Nothing more nothing less. They certainly don't have a sophisticated philosophy on management and being the best manager they can be.
I’ve worked in places where it’s much easier to promote someone into the management track than it is to create a new IC role.
In plenty of places in London you’ll get to senior engineer and then that’s basically it.