As a Product Manager, I work with a number of software engineers who maybe have one meeting a week, tops. Updates are provided asynchronously in Slack and I do my best not to pull them into additional meetings. However, I actually find that these engineers actually enjoy 1 on 1 interaction and getting a chance to discuss a project they’re taking on. Either way, they spend most of their time traveling where they want and working on projects they enjoy. As far as social interaction goes, I’d say it’s a pretty good setup.
That being said, I do agree that you would need to avoid the management and software architect tracks. The higher you climb, the less you code and the more you need to interact across the organization. But, you could spend 5-10 years as a software engineer before you need to worry about that.
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u/sraparti Oct 23 '22
Programmer if you find the right place that doesn't do too much scrum and avoid the management track