I think the engineering management field is going to drastically change in the next 5 years (probably 2 but industry will be slower to changes in some areas). We are already seeing signs at companies like Twitter and meta.
Exciting times for EMs!
Exciting times for EMs!
managers are expected to have 20+ person teams and spend at least 20% of their time coding
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/cruel-changes-at-twitter/...
There's a lot of other things a manager can do outside management but engineering requires too much focus.
There is a push for managers to return to engineering full time in some companies and that's reasonable if there's an imbalance but asking managers to spend 20% of their time keeping their development environment up to date (the only thing you'll get done with the amount of context switching) is immature.