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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by ZephyrBlu on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:26PM (#34699921)
To clarify, EM stands for Engineering Manager not Engineer Manager. EMs are generally expected to be technical, but not be engineers writing code on top of being a manager.
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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by the_af on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:35PM (#34700085)
Yes, agreed: Engineering Manager.

I often make this mistake because English is not my first language, and I confuse "engineer" with "engineering": in both cases it sounds to me "a manager who manages engineers", not "a manager who is an engineer him/herself". Kind of like a "Product Manager" is a manager who manages the product, not a manager who is a product!

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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by ZephyrBlu on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:40PM (#34700161)
No worries, just wanted to make sure people didn't get confused and think it was a dual Engineer/Manager role :).
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