A thought I had last week: Would anyone hire a software engineer to do anything other than engineering? As highly technical as these skills are, they don’t seem easily transferable.
Yet even the shitty company that’s questioning my technical ability said that I have excellent communication and ability to collaborate, which should really count for much more than it does in this industry. I’ve worked with too many engineers who are noticeably bad at these things.
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@paolamata A lot of the EPMs at Apple have CS degrees or are former engineers.
@paolamata I’ll go further and mention that one of my engineering manager colleagues has done tours as an engineer, an EPM, a Screener/Integrator, and an engineer again before becoming a manager. Lots of ways to apply your skills and acquire new ones!