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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:42
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:42
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On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 7:11:01 PM UTC-5, Mike Spencer wrote: > I professor at MIT I knew from the early 80s to the mid-90s told me > that he found "these kids smart, scary-smart" but that many of them > had told him that they were going the tech route only because they'd > found they were good at it. Expected to put in some entry time in > STEM jobs but that they were aiming for management where the real > money lay. Many companies realized that tech people needed a growth track that was not management, such as job titles of "super tech". How far that was implemented I cannot say. It certainly seemed that the typical promotion path for top- notch programmers was into management. Unfortunately, the skillset for managers is different, sometimes very different than for programmers. FWIW, I knew several great programmers who became horrible managers.
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