Don't become an engineering manager

Re:Don't become an engineering manager by UK-Al05 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @09:45AM (#47233156)

The document is comparing salaries of staff engineers, and EM's. In my experience staff engineer positions are even rarer then EM positions.

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Re:Don't become an engineering manager by makapuf on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @10:15AM (#47233648)

sure, as long as we're talking about 110 to 170k$ non-managing, technical roles in EU, I'd like to see a full eclipse soon (both exist but I think the latter could be easier to find)

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Re:Don't become an engineering manager by alephnerd on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @11:17AM (#47234660)

> In my experience staff engineer positions are even rarer then EM positions.

Where do you work?!? If you are in Western Europe then the blogpost is irrelevant for you. The Western European market is weird.

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Re:Don't become an engineering manager by DDerTyp on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @04:11PM (#47239051)

Can you elaborate more about this? Why is it irrelevant in Western Europe?

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Re:Don't become an engineering manager by alephnerd on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @08:56PM (#47242015)

Western Europe has a very different hiring market for SWEs due to how traditional industries like financial services, media, law, government, pharma, chemicals, and automotive are overrepresented.

In these kinds of organizations, software is viewed as a cost-center and as such the only way you as a SWE can protect yourself is to climb up the management chain as soon as possible.

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