Re:How to excel in tech without learning to code
by hrnn on Sunday January 30, 2022 @12:00PM
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What I've always wondered, is when getting into one of those roles (i.e. Tech Lead) without coding history or expertise, wouldn't you be missing credibility?
Re:How to excel in tech without learning to code
by spikej on Sunday January 30, 2022 @12:25PM
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Not as long as they have a good understanding of what's involved, and can ask questions leading you to deliver better value to business.
Re:How to excel in tech without learning to code
by sesteel on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:47AM
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Leadership is about managing risk, so that is a hard disagreement from me. Any good leader, especially a tech lead, needs to be able to both define the path and execute the path. If you don't have the skills or background to execute the path, you often have no clue what is involved and aren't of much help.
Even when well versed in a domain and related tech, we get surprised all the time.
Re:How to excel in tech without learning to code
by nojito on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:52PM
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I've said this before. The very best managers at FAANG and similar cannot code out of a wet paper bag and yet they are productivity multipliers for their teams which is why their compensation is so much higher than what most people think.
Re:How to excel in tech without learning to code
by captainredbeard on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:30PM
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> The very best managers at FAANG and similar cannot code out of a wet paper bag
You'd be surprised - there are some sharp VPs out there that identify code-level problems instantly.
And actually now that I think of it, just reading the documentation of tech is a huge benefit. You can know more about some tech than a software dev purely because the dev may never have read all the docs and aren't familiar with all its capabilities. Architects for example are voracious readers and don't really write code.