Re:Let Your Top Performers Move Around the Company
by enkid on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @11:50PM
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Do you know why they were unhappy? I could imagine reasons why, but wouldn't want to poison the well, so to speak.
Re:Let Your Top Performers Move Around the Company
by thanhhaimai on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:02AM
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I know, but I wouldn't be able to give much specifics due to privacy reasons. I can say that the common theme is dissatisfactions with the velocity of making decisions, leading to conflicts/frustration. In a large org, ICs are at the mercy of the management for velocity. When you step down from the TL position, you may feel pretty frustrated that your impact is now tied to some one else's (sometimes slow) decision. This feeling is already common between the normal ICs, but for TLs-turned-ICs, I think they experienced it much worse. All the people I knew burned out, complained about management, and left for another team or another company.
I actually have seen the reverse. All the TLs I saw that stepped down to be ICs left their team shortly. It's obviously anecdotal, so I wouldn't generalize from that. On the otherhand, the TLs that switched to be a manager tend to stay in the teams much longer. Many of them openly said they don't enjoy managing, but that didn't seem to affect their decision to stay.