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Originally Posted by Unregistered
It's very weird that a technical person aka senior principal engineer will become division manager...
Like this why don't managers become tech lead then?
Manager job like very easy. Anybody also can do. Tech or non tech. It's a very odd job
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There are tech leads who double up as appointed team managers. In name they are managers but they also do engineer work, e.g. software / hardware development.
That's why I agree that that grade and appointments are grey area. M3 can be a engineer still but E5/6 can be a manager. It all doesn't add up. Grade, appointment and pay doesn't necessary add up.
I was E5 and was referenced as a "manager" due to my job scope. I suppose it will make it nicer sounding to customers. Yet, a M2/3 probably earning 2 to 3 times my pay was just a APE or PE doing development work.
Yes, it sounds weird. But that's how it worked at least when I was there.