Ask HN: Career path for developers

Re:Ask HN: Career path for developers by iron_ball on Monday April 20, 2009 @09:36AM (#570641)

Obvious official HN response: do a startup, where your people skills will be just as important as your technical chops, yet you will still take full advantage of your years of experience.

My response: "management" is a fuzzy area. A product manager, for instance, can be very different from a project manager -- and it would involve a lot of what you're talking about.

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Re:Ask HN: Career path for developers by hunterjrj on Monday April 20, 2009 @09:42AM (#570652)

I'm not interested in being a PHB. That is my aversion to management...

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Re:Ask HN: Career path for developers by mseebach on Monday April 20, 2009 @11:01AM (#570794)

Then don't be a PHB. PHB is a stereotype and a caricature. Being a good leader is all about people skills, and what you're looking for sounds a lot like what a project manager could do. Note "could": once you step up to management, you become the chief architect of your own job. If you project PHB on it, that that's what you'll be.

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Re:Ask HN: Career path for developers by swombat on Monday April 20, 2009 @10:01AM (#570685)

Most start-ups involve very little management work until much later.

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