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Microsoft has done this all along. Managers are programmers, they divide their time between programming and managing. The feeling within Microsoft, was how ca
by GoldenMonkey 16y ago
Microsoft has done this all along. Managers are programmers, they divide their time between programming and managing. The feeling within Microsoft, was how can someone who is not a programmer, manage programmers?
- jdp23 16y agoAnd look how well it's worked for them ...
- maxxxxx 16y agoIt worked for them well for a long time. From what I hear managers there finally have managed to take over.
- mryall 16y agoThe problems started when they forgot this rule for senior management and made the CEO a sales guy instead of an engineer.
- code_duck 16y agoA multi-hundred billion dollar valuation, a monopoly or two and the founder being the richest man in the world for years is good... right?
- patio11 16y agoMay we all be cursed with Microsoftian levels of failure.
- al05 16y agoI'm pretty sure its illegal for non-lawyers to manage lawyers.
- arethuza 16y agoLots of companies have in-house legal counsel - they can't all be managed by lawyers unless it is lawyers all the way up to and including the CEO. What it might be is that law firms in most places can't have partners who are non-lawyers, but that's quite different.
- tyree732 16y agoThis is incorrect. The company I work for has a legal department that reports to upper management.
- al05 16y agoMy mistake, I just heard someone mention it before.