I don’t get big tech, recruiting for senior manager roles and recruiters says role is individual contributor, how the f do you have a senior manager with no direct report? I’m an M and have 40 people reporting to me on current project.

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I’m a IC director. I work directly for the Csuite understanding their goals and creating the plans. I then hand it off to the teams and PMO who do the work. By then I’m already working on the next item on their honey do list.

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Because a senior manager at a tech company (or any other company) is not necessarily a senior manager at a consulting

In many industries I find that the responsibilities of an experienced senior manager in consulting are generally commensurate to that of a director or senior director. Consider that many experienced Senior Managers are interacting with lower level C suite execs and partnering with their direct reports. That’s not typically what a senior manager in most industries do.

Some industries have severe title inflation (e.g. in banking people a few years out of college seem to be an AVP or VP). In consulting many of the Big4 and Accenture have this sort of title deflation where you don’t have an “executive like title” until you’re a partner, principal or managing director.

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Not a bad thing. It could mean you’re next in line to who you report to or someone with a similar position in another area.

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Other commenters got it mostly, but it's also that tech companies value individual contributors much more highly. In consulting, the only measurements are revenue and headcount.

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Generally solution architects don’t have a direct report but they can be quite high up and important in an org since there are bigger and bigger pieces of the picture that need direction.

Literally had this discussion in an interview today! Lol. I’m like wait....I did not get this far for an IC role 😤

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