i would recommend listening to the part on "common mistakes of new tech leads".
do you really want a project manager -- who hasn't contributed anything to the code base -- to evaluate skills, make recommendations, organize, and mediate for a team of a 8 or 10 software developers? probably not.
as a "tech lead" in a very, very large organization, i would say finding 30% of your time to code is very hard to do. especially given you are the one sitting in the meetings explaining progress, deflecting new arbitrary "but can't you just..." tasks, and speaking with authority on cross-team dependencies all day.
do you really want a project manager -- who hasn't contributed anything to the code base -- to evaluate skills, make recommendations, organize, and mediate for a team of a 8 or 10 software developers? probably not.
as a "tech lead" in a very, very large organization, i would say finding 30% of your time to code is very hard to do. especially given you are the one sitting in the meetings explaining progress, deflecting new arbitrary "but can't you just..." tasks, and speaking with authority on cross-team dependencies all day.