Can Everyone Not Become A Manager, Please?

An open letter to software engineers, designers, and architects…

Attila Vágó
Level Up Coding
Published in
6 min readFeb 22, 2024

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Everyone I cared about and loved working with, I lost. Year after year, I have to watch as outstanding professionals from UX research and design to hard-core software engineering end up in lower or middle-management. Some are forced into it, others are nudged into it. Then there’s…

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