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I think the points made at mostly for a front-line manager though, not so much for a middle manager.

Is it really basic economics that free market leads to monopolies? I thought this is not something where there is a strong consensus about ; free market advocates will actually argue that this is regulation that leads to monopolies.

Why so much comments about the bubble aspect?

Sure, there is an AI bubble. But 13B valuation for a startup that is the best positioned to have access to most EU entreprise needs of AI, this does not feel overvalued to me. Mistral does not even need to produce leading models, they just need to produce good enough models that do not lag too much behind the top ones.

Thanks for this message, this is actually helpful :). I have been a TLM/EM for the last 4 years, and I still struggle at times to define what my role is about...and in downtime moments (which are rare, most of the time, you are overloaded), what the fuck should I spend my time on.

You forgot the worst one imo: * when re-org happens / changing jobs, you now have no deep knowledge at all in the stacks you are managing. And no time to develop such knowledge before the next re-org anyway. So you are constantly in a state where you are dealing with topics that you only have a superficial understanding about.

I really feel like the tension between <time to develop a deep understanding of your scope> VS <time before the next re-org (or layoff)> is not in your favor.

Problem is: going to Director level takes several years, at least. And even there, you are basically the CEO of a small start-up, in the sense that you need to constantly fight for "market shares", i.e. scope. Else your org risks getting irrelevant pretty fast, and you are in for a lot of trouble.

Belgian speaking here. Have 4 years of experience, my first salary was around 40k. Current salary is 46k, and I am moving next month to Paris in a top tech company (reputed to pay very well there), that will offer me 59k + 14k (average bonus, etc.). And I consider myself on the high end of the spectrum, so yeah, I am pretty sure there is a lot of (young) engineers making less than 50k in Berlin.