I don't know how I feel about the trend of claiming engineering and management is equivalent. Perhaps in pay they are, but the real question is power and except at the very top (CTO/CIO) I doubt engineering has a lot of broad power and discretion. Engineering doesn't cast vision the way management does. Principal Engineer and Sr Director/VP are on paper equivalent jobs, but I wager there are at least some decisions a PE needs Director approval on (where the reverse is never true).
I don't think that's actually a terrible thing. Some people are better at refining others' plans and then implementing; others are great big-picture or ducks-in-a-row planners. There should be multiple tracks for different skillset buckets. But to say they're equivalent isn't really true.
I don't think that's actually a terrible thing. Some people are better at refining others' plans and then implementing; others are great big-picture or ducks-in-a-row planners. There should be multiple tracks for different skillset buckets. But to say they're equivalent isn't really true.