Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 things they didn’t tell me

An engineer at a tech start-up called CloudLock was promoted to team lead when he was 24 years old. His first few months on the job, he didn't really understand the job. Some of the team actually liked it at first, but some of the. team didn't like it because they were making the same mistakes over and over again and not getting better. There is a reverse connection between strong individual dev skills and dev team lead skills. The strongest devs will have more of an uphill battle starting out as managers.