A lot of professions have terms of art that can be interpreted incorrectly or be viewed as odd by laymen. "Individual contributor" is no different.

Maybe it sounds weird to you, but it's a well-understood term in the management profession.

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gfody 5 hours ago | parent [-]

it's a bullshit term because a managers contributions are also individual and the kind of contributions (implied to come from non-individual contributors) also come from individual contributors

	▲	justonceokay 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		ICs are given tasks for one person. Managers are given tasks to distribute to entire teams. By definition managers do not contribute individually because their output (from an org chart perspective) includes the output of everyone reporting to them.