Path to Staff Engineer

Path to Staff Engineer

Don’t Become an Engineering Manager

Without preparing for these four hidden realities first.

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Sidwyn Koh and Suresh Choudhary
Nov 02, 2024
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Intro

Today’s article is a guest post by Suresh Choudhary, Senior Engineering Manager at Salesforce, and a fellow author at Diary of an Engineering Manager (subscribe if you haven’t!).

Suresh and I have been chatting about the path from Senior Engineer to Management, a path I had once considered. I wanted him to share more about his learnings and challenges faced growing into a manager, now that he’s been one for several years. He graciously agreed and is here to share his story today.

Without further ado, here’s Suresh’s story.

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