## Metadata * URL: [https://towardsdatascience.com/the-difficult-life-of-the-data-lead-a31186ef0d27](https://towardsdatascience.com/the-difficult-life-of-the-data-lead-a31186ef0d27) * Published Date: 2022-09-12 * Author: [[Mikkel dengsøe|Mikkel Dengsøe]] ## Highlights * If you look at engineering teams, many Engineering Managers have left behind most of their IC-related work. In fact, seeing an Engineering Manager push code to the production codebase is uncommon in many organisations.