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_delirium on July 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How to prepare for an Engineering Manager ...

It's reasonably common for there to be a "first among equals" type situation where the person with a title like "technical lead" or "team lead" has technical decision-making authority within the team, but isn't formally a manager of any of the team members in the HR sense.

johnbellone on July 8, 2017 | [–]

Yep, "technical lead" is that in my head, but perhaps that's because a "team lead" is line manager everywhere I have been.

spacefeast on July 8, 2017 | [–]

Never thought about it as "first among equals", this is true.

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