The Donut Hole of Engineering Management Work

Becoming a software engineering manager doesn’t mean giving up hands-on work, but it does mean the nature of that work will change.

Dave Taubler
The Startup
Published in
7 min readApr 9, 2020

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A common concern of software engineers when considering a move into management is, “will I need to give up programming?” In reality, a typical engineering manager —…

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Dave Taubler
The Startup

Software architect, engineering leader, musician, husband, dad