Rejected from a senior IC role because I have managed before
Senior Software Engineer (IC)·Final Round·2026
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Address the management background head-on before the HM invents the objection — this is really good advice. Better to pre-empt it than wait to rebut it.
The logic that management experience disqualifies you from IC is backwards. Frustrating that it played out this way.