Accenture and specifically Federal Services.
Sr. Manager and Manager levels at your company, 2 questions:
1) How many years professional experience do most people have at those levels?
2) Are these simply better titles but still individual contributors, a mix of IC and Management, or strictly management type of work?
Asking because I have interviewed with similar groups where the title is manager, but it's for young people only 2 years out of college and they're just a entry level developer.
For instance, I made Manager at 7 YOE as a homegrown hire from entry level (currently at 9 YOE). I manage a team of 25 people and Deputy lead two other teams of around 10 people. I'm almost never in the trenches anymore. I have 2 other Managers, 4 Associate Managers and the rest are lower levels and subks that report to me. My technical involvement is usually around guiding solutions, strategy and helping with issues as needed but my team leads and their team members are implementing everything.
That's definitely not Managers here. Lol
Managers on average are probably like 10 YOE. SMs are like 15 YOE. It's all over the place for a bunch of reasons. Most are not hands on keyboards doing development work but on some small projects they can be. Especially if they're the main SME leading a small group of Analysts/Consultants. It's project and team size dependent.
Probably depends on your speciality. We have some Managers that lead 1-2 people but it’s because they play office politics like a champ.
That's true as well. We even have some Managers who don't really manage anyone. Just technical SMEs