That's interesting! I think he's definitely an outlier though. He must have a good executive team under him to lean on so that he can focus some time every day on development.
That's a good rule of thumb too – haven't heard that before.
To be honest, as a customer, this terrifies me if I take you at face value re: 'codes every day'
Re:Coding as an Engineering Manager
by ultrasaurus on Friday November 02, 2018 @02:19PM
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FWIW: as the head of product, I code a few times a week but mine is all sample code for our customers or demos.
We are a developer focused company so your mileage may vary.
One pattern that seems to work is to write the code if it's easier to explain it in code (& tests!) than in words.