Ask HN: What's like to be an engineering manager?

It&#x27;s great if you&#x27;re ok with:<p>* Taking all the blame when your team fails<p>* Getting no reward when your team succeeds<p>* Never being thanked or appreciated by your direct reports or manager<p>* Being in pointless meeting with people who&#x27;ve never built anything<p>* Smiling and nodding politely when being told what to do by people with no skin in the game.<p>* Having your decade of engineering experience being ignored because you didn&#x27;t write that line of code<p>* Getting dressed down when you did write that piece of code instead of delegating it.<p>Other than that it is quite fulfilling.