Ask HN: Questions for Engineering Managers
Q: Did you get hired in a new company / team as an EM, or transition within the same team?
Q: Do you keep on building your technical knowledge? In your experience, is there a need for doing that or does experience gained in people management skills remove that requirement
Q: How good of an engineer would you rate yourself when you made the transition? Did you ever think 'I don't know enough eng yet'?
Q: Do you manage teams in the same technical domain you worked in before? Have you been an EM for teams in different domains? Did that have some effect / no effect / needed tech ramp up?
Q: Have you moved back to an eng role? Was that easy? Difficult? Have you ping-ponged between the two?
Context: I'm a senior (whatever that means) engineer, and casually considering moving more towards the management side (currently a tech lead for a team). Enjoy / have some people skills so this kind of work is attractive to some extent.