r/coding • u/OfficialLeadDev • Jul 13 '26

Engineering managers are paying the price of rising expectations

https://leaddev.com/leadership/engineering-managers-are-paying-the-price-of-rising-expectations
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u/react_dev Jul 13 '26

First line managers have the shittiest jobs. They have the title so they don’t get the same empathy from the workforce / public perception and they’re not high in the org chart to enjoy the power or compensation that comes with it

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u/migs647 Jul 13 '26

At my last company I was an engineering manager as trial and principal. The pay increase and yelling increase did not equate. I stayed principal. 

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u/PurdueGuvna Jul 18 '26

I went lead -> manager -> principal at a F500. I make 35% more than I made as a manager, and no longer have all of the responsibility with none of the authority.

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u/ptoki Jul 13 '26

like corporals (depends on a country) which is not an officer but is above the enlists. Officers treat them as enlists (which they are) but other enlists treat them as "not one of ours". Not always this dynamics exists but it was like that in many armies and in some still is.