Joined as a lead software engineer at AZ location this month. I’m asked to do both technical and management. I thought I would be more of technical lead but asked to do coding, and managing both. Any thoughts?
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Nothing. Less is more.
Do the needful whilst level besting
You should resign.
Your obviously not qualified if you have to ask such a basic question in an annon forum that can easily be answered internally.
Lead = manager without the pay. Eff that.
Expect to do any tasks requested. This place is a mess. Welcome to the team.
coding is done in India. You watch them and learn . Have fun. If you code here, you will be gone soon.
Did you expect that you'd only do heads down coding technical tasks?
As a lead software engineer you should expect to set direction, do design work, review and possibly write documents, code/design reviews, solve overall technical/integration problems, work with business partners.
Scary enough, I've run into a variety of leads and even principal engineers that are pretty lame, def not operating at the level of lead or principal.
also - the product teams here are a joke - mostly clueless and operate entirely in powerpoint. you'll spend a lot of timing fixing their mistakes and cleaning up their Jira messes so they dont blame you for bad coding work.
A lot of managers are individual contributors.
You might want to work elsewhere as this is the norm and you will be asked to over commit
As a lead, you're expected to spend around 50-70% of your time on technical tasks, such as coding, designing, and troubleshooting, and 30-50% on management tasks, such as leading, mentoring, and coordinating.
Sounds about right for what would be expected.
You're basically at the top of technical and even with, if not above, entry-level managers. You should expect some managerial type work.
I am not an engineer, I am not even in tech, so I have no clue.