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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by sidibe on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:48AM (#34705332)
Jeff Dean also eventually managed a huge org (Sanjay Ghemawat managed to avoid this)

It's not a waste of time if it makes them more effective at making decisions, gives them ideas, or keeps them abreast of what is actually going on.

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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by khazhoux on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:54AM (#34705375)
Ideas, staying sharp, keeping up with swift and pytorch etc… sure, absolutely useful to code on weekends or a bit here and there.

What I meant what that there’s literal zero way someone can be an SVP and still perform any actual IC work.

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