Pros and Cons of Going from Individual Contributor Back to Manager

There’s much written about becoming a first time Engineering Manager (I recommend Camille’s book ), but little about the second time. To my own surprise, I am back to being a manager after almost 6 years of writing code as an individual contributor (IC). Two months ago I joined the Developer Productivity organization at Shopify to create a new team called “Augmented Engineering”. We’ve been busy…