On: Shopify elevated the non-manager career path and ditched meetings

[mandeepj]

> Management interviews are much easier than ICs.

You'd think so, but it's not. During mgmt interviews, you have to show how did you rally your team and had impact. It's much easier to rally yourself (think leetcode) than rally 6 other people.

[dimal → mandeepj]

I don’t know. For staff engineer interviews I’ve been on, they seem to want technical proficiency and team leadership. They want the full package.

[mrburkins → mandeepj]

But there’s no test suite that fails for a story about rallying 6 others, or having impact all of which cannot be verified and thus easily embellished - leetcode, and subsequently your candidacy, either passes the bar or it doesn’t.

[jacques_chester → mandeepj]

> It's much easier to rally yourself (think leetcode) than rally 6 other people.

For me at least this hasn't been true.