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Management mistakes can be found across all companies big and small. What you're seeing in particular is that a senior dev has been promoted to be the CTO or eq
by twunde 11y ago
Management mistakes can be found across all companies big and small. What you're seeing in particular is that a senior dev has been promoted to be the CTO or equivalent and has little prior management experience. This is pretty common. In a corporate job, that person might have a training program or someone to mentor him/her but in a startup they just have to learn from their mistakes. So what can you do? Be proactive. Talk to management, set up 1-on-1s. Depending on the problem, it might be something they haven't thought about or it might be something they're aware of but haven't had the time to do something about. And of course you could always aim to get into management to do something about it.
- throwaway_606 11y agoI try to be honest and discuss issues I'm having when they occur. The hell of it is that most of the time the issues stem from something they've implemented (code or culture), and thus they take it personally. On the occasions where it's been a mutual gripe it works out well. There's just a lot of ego on the line and it really screws up the whole process. As for getting into management - that'll have to wait a few more years. I want to check a few more boxes as a developer before I make the leap. I think if I went for it now, there would be a good chance that I'd end up emulating some of the bad tendencies I see due to a lack to more comprehensive experience.