Charity Majors • 9/8/2019

17 Reasons NOT To Be A Manager

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This article, based on a team discussion at Intercom, lists reasons a senior individual contributor in software engineering might not want to become a manager. It focuses on intrinsic motivations in a healthy organization, such as deep love for hands-on technical work, the relative ease of finding new engineering jobs versus management roles, and the scarcity of management positions.

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