I’ve been an IC for ten years and I’m finally being offered a manager role, but I’m hesitant. I love building things, and I’m worried that moving into people leadership is just leaning into the stereotype that women are better at nurturing than coding. For those who made the jump: do you miss the code, or is the influence worth the trade-off?

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I think it depends on the company and how they treat the managerial roles. I have taken a management role which I enjoyed but found a bit repetitive and missed solving problems from the IC level. For my next job I opted for the IC track that allows employees to earn the up to the salary equivalent of Senior Director without having the title or the personnel management duties. That said, there is a ceiling there and further job grade advancements would require a move to a people management position. If that’s an end goal for you, it would probably be better to go that route earlier rather than later in your career. I always felt the best managers want to grow and develop talent over owning/executing the hands on work…the managers that try to do both (esp. in engineering) usually fall short in one or both roles (and it’s usually the people management part in my experience).

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