Rui Peres • 6/11/2023

Degraded skills

An engineering manager reflects on the gradual degradation of hands-on technical skills after moving into management, using their experience at Babylon Health as an example. They describe the trade-offs between deep technical understanding and managerial duties, emphasizing the importance of grasping fundamentals like architecture and processes over specific implementation details. The article explores the personal challenges of skill retention due to time constraints from family and declining energy, concluding without a definitive solution but a commitment to keep searching.

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#software development #career growth #engineering management