Faiq

I always recommend Charity Majors’ concept of the 'Engineer-Manager Pendulum' to anyone thinking about this. You don't have to say goodbye to tech forever. Spending a few years as an EM, then swinging back to being an Individual Contributor (IC) actually makes you a much stronger leader and developer on both ends.

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Syed Ahmer Shah

Hey, I’m Ahmer — a Software Engineering student & full-stack dev sharing projects, dev logs, and lessons from the code trenches.

May 31

Charity Majors' Pendulum concept is brilliant, Faiq, and I’m so glad you brought it up. It completely reframes the move from a "one-way trapdoor" to a two-way street. Going back to an IC role after managing makes you a dream to work with because you finally understand the business constraints, and going from an IC to an EM keeps your technical empathy sharp. It removes so much of the career existential dread.

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