> It should not be surprising that the criteria on which they are judged do not include technical decision making. Absolutely. Even individual technical contri

> It should not be surprising that the criteria on which they are judged do not include technical decision making. Absolutely. Even individual technical contributors are judged on vague criteria. I'd argue that 'being liked by your manager' is more important than being technically excellent. > So mistakes reported by customers counted against managers, but ones caught by developers did not, regardless of how much effort was required to fix them. Exactly. Also, I've never seen technical debt (myopic technical decision-making) affect evaluation of management.