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Manager jobs are significantly more stressful and harder to train for than individual contributors. And my personal opinion is that good managers are much rarer

• b34r 8y ago
  It really depends on how much the manager throws themselves into their work. I’ve had a few really good ones that I felt were actually helpful and the vast majority that just go to meetings and completely fail to isolate their team from chaos.
  • namank 8y ago
    Yes absolutely. Managing a manager is hard. Objectives and accountability are easy to get muddled because their tasks are all people based. I am still looking for a practical and resource-efficient way to manage.
• gorbachev 8y ago
  Absolutely. It's also much more difficult to get better at managing people than getting better at engineering. Although I suppose if you're a really good manager that may not be true.