I am seeing the term "player-coach" thrown by CEOs and VCs. I think this originated somewhere in VC circle and "move fast" philisophy.

While there is a lot of waste and many managers are doing coordination only rather than adding value, it is hard to imagine having a manager 20+ reports and then doing coding on top of that.

I am looking for EM job and barely seeing any responses. I have remained fairly hands-on but I don't write production code every single day. I have one FAANG, a few mid size companies (equivalent of PayPal), and two startups on resume. How are you all doing and what are you doing to get responses for manager roles?