Can someone share their experience of transitioning from individual contributor to manager role? And how long did it take you?

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From my experience it really depends on the context. At some companies, you can continue being an individual contributor and still advance and become fairly senior. You just become an expert in your field. At other companies, managing people is a built-in part of climbing the ranks. My experience has been mostly with the latter and I've tried to spend time (unfortunately extra time outside work or on top of my official responsibilities) reading up on how to actually manage people. That is a different skill set than the core work most of us do, and most companies don't dedicate enough professional development to training new managers. Overall my transition from individual contributor to manager role took 5-6 years post-college.

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Even my company offers growth both as individual contributor and manager. However, it seems like I can only get a raise by getting promoted, being promoted means to become a manager. There is only two more level to promote me if I were choose to continue as an individual contributor. But many more levels of manager ahead. Do you see this happen in your experience?

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