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Having had some absolutely horrible managers in tech the worst usually are the ones with lower technical expertise. The reason being is mainly related to unders
by subsubzero 6y ago
Having had some absolutely horrible managers in tech the worst usually are the ones with lower technical expertise. The reason being is mainly related to understanding scope of work and the complexities of said projects.
That being said I also have had other really bad managers who were star IC's that were promoted to mgmt as they really had no where else to go in their career. These managers usually are clueless on dealing with people and other teams.
- caturopath 6y agoGiven the right support, I've seen lower-knowledge managers really do well. I think a lot of the worse situations I've seen were when someone didn't realize their technical judgement was inapplicable or rusty, and that they needed to defer to their experts. This is tricky, of course -- for low-level managers with typical engineer IC reports especially, it's super common for them not to have a single report whose judgement they can trust.