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I think this is mostly driven by management's insecurities / needs to see their "subjects" right in front of them and their typical need to "show" their activit
by noisy_boy 6y ago
I think this is mostly driven by management's insecurities / needs to see their "subjects" right in front of them and their typical need to "show" their activities in an obvious/noisy way. Typical managers tend to be extroverts and find allies in other extroverts or in people who happen to work in/enjoy the social interaction in office. Unfortunately there is not much representation of introverts in the decision making circle so those people will be once more thrown under the "quality-of-face-to-face-interactions" bus. Engineering-driven, low-politics, not-so-large orgs might do things a bit differently.
- nlitened 6y agoI would imagine that in Google most managers would be former engineers. If that is true, there might be more to the story rather than introverts/extraverts split.
- muro 6y agoI don't think a decision like this is made by "most managers". This is probably a CEO decision.
- DataJunkie 6y agoThis is a one size fits all "solution" designed at the top. That's all I am saying.
- joe45643234 6y agoThat makes sense. Sunar Pichai is no coder like Jeff Dean or Sanjay.
- chii 6y ago> in Google most managers would be former engineers former engineers - that is, they no longer want to be an engineer, but chose the management path. It's quite likely that engineering work is merely a stepping stone for someone like that who intends to advance their career in the management track. I would expect an over-representation of extroverts in this category. Introverted engineers remain engineers because they like the work, and are only forced out when the pay no longer match their output (but can not move up any more due to the engineering track being "ceiling" compared to the management track).