What If I Don’t Want to Become a Manager? How to Stay Relevant in the Market
summary
Advice on building and sustaining a long technical career as a software developer instead of moving into management, covering how to stay valuable to employers and attractive to the job market and how to access top roles at leading companies. Draws on the speaker’s 20+ years of engineering experience across insurance, banking, telecom and web portals and his current role as an engineering director.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:13Y-shaped career vs management
- 10:37Manager vs contributor
- 17:24Essential technical skills
- 24:51Company expectations for contributors
- 31:01Personal experience and choices
- 36:45Measuring technical and soft skills
- 38:12Empathy and management perspective
- 39:35Closing
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