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The Management Trap in Software Engineering - Dev Leader Weekly 143

TL; DR:

Management is a different job, not a promotion
Not all context switching drains you equally
Absorb your team's chaos -- but keep it temporary
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The Management Trap in Software Engineering

This week's topic comes from a post on the ExperiencedDevs subreddit titled "the management trap." An engineering manager was reflecting on their career progression and how they'd arrived at a particular realization: they're missing a lot of the joy -- that deep, hyperfocused, heads-down work they used to get as an individual contributor. As someone who has been a frontline engineering manager for over thirteen years, this one hit close to home, and I want to walk through my honest take on it.

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