Ask HN: How to be a Head of Engineering?

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As my career progress, I am currently looking for the next big challenge. As a software developer, how can I progress to a HoE role? I know that it's more than just an engineering role, but how do I get there? I'm thinking to take some break and see how other companies are running their engineering teams and bring the lessons to my current company. Or is there any other path that I could explore?

I'm not planning to quit my job, just looking for the next challenge. For some reasons there's no HoE at my current company, only CTO. So hard to do a benchmark.

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