Re:Ask HN: How do I earn more as a developer?
by bluehatbrit on Thursday February 14, 2019 @09:33AM
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I completely agree that it's useful to cultivate PM and BA skills, if anything just to help with empathy across teams and enable you and the team to work better.
There are more and more companies slowly developing career pathways with technical only routes, but it's definetely not enough places.
The "trap" in development is in having non-technical roles view your role, essentially, as one in where they make all of the business decisions, and you as the coder take their orders to implement them.
That's no good for career progression or effective development, either. I'd deliberately cultivate some of the same PM and business analytics skills alongside your technical skills.