Being Glue

They are not talking about writing "glue code" (misleading title perhaps). They are talking about engineering management and senior responsibilities: > You'd like to have time to code, but nobody else is onboarding the junior engineers, updating the roadmap, talking to the users, noticing the things that got dropped, asking questions on design documents, and making sure that everyone's going roughly in the same direction... If this describes you, congratulations: you're the glue. Edit: Looks like the title was…

A couple of years ago, I approached several coworkers whom I highly respected and asked them for frank advice about whether I should continue on a technical, individual-contributor track or instead set my sights on a managerial track. I felt as if my tech skills weren't all that great, and that I would always be playing catch-up (since programming was a career change for me). And from past jobs, I knew I had some pretty good "glue work" and managerial…

For reference: discussion from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19846720