{"id":27626,"date":"2017-05-25T22:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27626"},"modified":"2017-05-25T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T20:29:07","slug":"the-engineermanager-pendulum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/25\/the-engineermanager-pendulum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Engineer\/Manager Pendulum"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/charity.wtf\/2017\/05\/11\/the-engineer-manager-pendulum\/\">The Engineer\/Manager Pendulum<\/a>&#8221; is a great article about a career shift from engineering to management. \u00a0Anybody who&#8217;s in engineering now and plans or even just wants to become a manager should read this. \u00a0Anybody responsible for &#8220;promoting&#8221; engineers to managers must read this too.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1. 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