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> be an engineer yourself before attempting to manage some

I've seen this. 90% of the time, the company loses a good engineer and trades him for a mediocre manager. It's a lose-lose situation.

Nowadays, managers are focused on 1on1s. Totally useless.

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I used to think that. As long as I can write code when I need to and I can inform designs and architectures, my company gets all the benefit of my programming skills as well as my team building skills.

i actually this is also the most productive way to use a senior developer : have him focus on helping the team design and architect software instead of coding everything himself, and help other people grow to his level.

What have you seen that worked best?

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