Comment by nomdep

A terrible career move. As other commenter said, if there wasn't a pay cut, is because of the company charity.

Now she has to be not only a good coder but a great one, (and in a tech stack she didn't had used already).

Otherwise, a year from now, they might not feel so charitable, and the story will be "from director of design to fired IC".

A friend of mine made a similar mistake once, believing the BS of the "parallel management and engineering tracks".