Now have direct reports under me. No idea wtf I’m doing, I guess I did a good job? Any advice you have for me?

  • @isaiah
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    71 year ago

    Same here. I’m a Tech Lead right now, but I still live in the code. I see myself as on-trajectory to Architect. I have no direct-reports or any of the responsibilities they go with direct-reports. That role is called a Team Lead at my company (which is on-trajectory for management). I stay at from that stuff like the plague 🤮

    • AggressivelyPassive
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      31 year ago

      I think it also depends on how you structure teams.

      In the companies I worked at and experienced as contractor, product/project teams and HR-relevant teams were two almost separate org charts. That is, the guy who says to me what to do is not the guy who tells me how much money I’ll get for that.

      Lead devs in this sense are “leading” a project or product, so they do have to deal with the day to day bullshit of human interaction, product meetings, etc., but most people wouldn’t call their fellow devs “reports”.