You should switch, remember after certain yrs of experience your growth will become very slow if you are IC.

Engineering Manager

I'm currently a Senior SRE with experience in cloud, ops, infrastructure, databases, consulting, security, etc. Also skilled and interested in management (people and product), customer experience, ...

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I'm currently a Senior SRE with experience in cloud, ops, infrastructure, databases, consulting, security, etc. Also skilled and interested in management (people and product), customer experience, etc.

My immediate manager has suggested an idea of me becoming an Engineering Manager in a Cloud product team. I'll approximately have 7 YoE by then.

Senior folks in Big Tech, do you think it's a good idea to switch from an IC to Leadership this early in career? What are the pros and cons?

Engineering Manager at 6-7 YoE, yay or nay?

Software Engineer

Engineering Manager at 6-7 YoE, yay or nay?- Grapevine

Total YoE: 6.5
Current role- Technical lead
B.tech

Good leadership qualities. 
Aspiration: to be an engineering manager, Not sure about Architect.
Career Background: full stack developer all my career, also Scrum Master role for 1.5 years(got excellent feedback).
Tried running my own startup on weekends but failed.
Current working as TL.

How do I take my career forward to be an eng. Manager in future?

Will MBA help? Or any other route?

Road to engineering manager?

Technical Lead

Currently have 10years of experience and am at cross roads of next steps in career. Need help from senior folks here to know pros and cons on either directions I have a chance to move up the ladder

Want to know career opportunities say next 10-20 years and pay as well. 

As for me, love hands on tech but scared how long can I sustain the mojo. 

People management wise not bad but need to learn many steps in there to become great.

If it’s of any help current TC: 60L

Engineering Manager route v/s Staff/ Principal Software Engineer

Software Developer

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Hey people,
   I am a software engineer. I am thinking of pivoting to leadership kind of roles like EIR, founders office, product manager, etc. 
   For people who are currently in such roles or know people in these roles, do you think people from tech(engineering) background, pivoting to this role at age of 24-25 yrs is advisable? Would people hiring for these roles see that I don't hold an MBA?
   What are the things about these roles I should be aware of?

Thinking of switching to non-tech(leadership) from tech

Consultant

Biggest query:
Does this career move make sense? Or should the aim be towards a Manager position after spending 6+ years in Product Management?

Switch advice: SPM w/ 6+ YOE --> Management Consultant

Management Consultant

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I'm relatively early in my career, and has been working as a Program Manager (it doesn't mean that I have anyone reporting to me). I love what I do. The pay is also decent. 

I also like software engineering (app development mainly). I used to code regularly and has got some apps on the Play Store as well (hobby projects, not big). 

I'm confused whether I should continue as a Program Manager (going down the managerial route) or switch to a Software Engineering role. I feel like I should get some software engineering experience before being in a role working closely with Software Engineers. But, another thought is why move away from something that I love doing. 

I'm a bit scared on taking a decision (grass would always be greener on the other side). I don't know anyone like me in the same route.

Note: I work at a fortune 50 organisation, awesome team/manager, and all of them are completely supportive of whatever decision I make. 

My manager is happy to help me grow in any direction (both at the same time as well), but spending energy on one would yield better results. 

Age: <25
Education: B.Tech (no MBA)
Exp: ~ 2 years

Note: I would definitely love to be a good manager down the lane (always liked working with people). 


(I don't want to make this into a thread to fight on coding v/s non coding roles)

Managerial Role vs Engineering Role

Product Manager

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

I have 6 years experience. My current base/fixed is 60 LPA. (I also got a 5 lakh bonus and 5 lakh of my ESOPs vested this year making my total vested about 30 lakh. So the total comp is 70). 

I'm being offered a senior engineer position in an early stage startup (as part of the founding engineer team). They haven't given an offer yet.

Being early stage, the emphasis will most likely be on ESOPs. How do I evaluate this and set my expectations? (If I were to switch to a mature company, I believe the hikes usually are between 15-20%? How does this work for early stage startups?)

Salary expectation at early stage startup

Please advise if moving from pure tech development role to Architect Role is a good move? YOE-9

Senior Developer to Architect Role

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I’m working at an Indian startup that raised their series B recently... I’ve been here long enough to wear multiple hats and currently doing Solutions consulting(fancy way of pre sales)

Now as the company is getting out of early stage, it looks like now they want more specialists. So I’ve been asked if I’d want to continue doing solutions engineering or switch to being a manager in CX(onboarding, support or success)….cant become a manager in SE as there are very limited no of folks here. I’d want to know if folks here have some guidance on when should one look to switch the path from an IC to a Manager career ladder.

Some additional info:
1. Personally I feel I should top out my compensation range as an IC before taking a manager role as my assumption is managers don’t get paid highly in India (let me know if that’s not the case)
2. I’ve more than 7 years of professional experience 
3. Fairly good with people and would like to go the manager route someday but I feel if I switch now it might hamper my long term earning potential. Is this thinking right?

Would appreciate any help that folks can provide to be able to make this decision. Or any guidance on how to think about this as well(if I’m being shortsighted).  TIA!

Switch to being a Manager?

Generalist

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

I've been a Senior Backend Dev all my career and seriously wanted to switch to Managerial roles. I have a CSM® certification and am undergoing various training as well. I'm okay to start with Associate roles as well. 

Kindly provide your valuable suggestions and preparation tips! TIA

How to get into Project Manager roles with 7 yoe?

Scrum Master

I feel there is no light for this tunnel for many more months to come. 11150+ Applications for 1 Post. Can't imagine the level of competition.

11,100+ applicants for 1 Job, Is market really getting better as mainstream says?

Analyst

Will entertain only serious questions that respect anonymity. I don’t mind humor, but trolling is strict no no.

Conducted one AMA session last week & was overwhelmed by both number & positive feedback. I might choose to skip any question repeated from last time.

Some things about me
- I love to code & go beyond coding
- Managed a team of around 20 people before
- I love mentoring people
- Presently overseeing the architecture and lifecycle of a suite of products

Don’t mind me giving you some useful gyan 😀

Presently Senior Architect, previously Engineering Manager, 18+ yoe in software engg. AMA

Software Architect

What do u think the career trajectory will be for Native Mobile developers after 4-5 Years of experience? ( Android/Ios) 

Personally I think there are less senior/staff roles in india unless we pivot to BE or people roles we will not have an uptrend in our career. 

And what do u think about Hybrid frameworks ( like RN and Flutter) ? should we adopt them ASAP ? or not required to grow in the career ladder ? 

( Please add YOE while answering It helps to see how early devs vs Exp devs think )

Native Mobile developers - need ur thoughts.

I'm a lead engineer at a small-mid Indian Saas company. 
Been at the company for more than 6 years (total yoe 8+) and used to like the company and culture, alway top performer.
Had been managing my team really well, mentoring them.. 
juggling multiple projects, reducing tech debt, improving developer experience.. 
and I enjoyed it.

Now the company is trying to transition my role to more of a technical product manager where I have to think about how to improve the product, new features, take customer feedback, understand business analytics, usage, adoption, iteratively improve and deliver value.

I'm not sure if I'm ready for this role. 
I hate this MBA shizz.

What should I do? Try to like this, work on it and ace it?
or let my management know that this is not what I signed up for..

I feel low at work because I'm not able to meet my expectations (let alone my manager's)

Role transition and lows due to that 🙄

Currently at over 45L INR ($55K)/year. 
Jumped from 9L INR ($11K)/year 1.5 years back.

Is it possible to go 5-6X from here?

I'm in tech, backend.

What path should I follow?
Build a SAAS, become an influencer, join a FAANG?

How to go 5X from here?

I can see folks looking down on Frontend Engineering, why is it so?
Is there a pay gap between frontend and backend.

Do frontend engineers have any future?

Developer to Architect Role

Hi guys, 
I have between 5-6 years of experience in engineering role (QA/Test automation). However over these years I have found the role to be unfulfilling due to the growth, impact and visibility. 
I have been considering going for a full time executive MBA (In India/Abroad) to switch into a PM/Strategy role. 
Wanted to understand if this is going to be really worth it, considering I will have high chances to start again at an entry level position? Or is this common to do post MBA?

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