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If your manager shields you too well, you may not know when potentially cataclysmic organizational changes are coming. Especially if this is paired with your ma

• borski 5y ago
  It is your manager’s job to know when to shield you and when to bring you up to speed. A good manager never lets you get caught off-guard, because that is how you quickly lose great engineers.
  • WJW 5y ago
    I agree that having a good manager makes all the difference, but have never yet figured out a way to get assigned only to good managers.
    • borski 5y ago
      Yeah, the only sure way is to "move jobs by manager." This is why employees will often follow good managers from one company to another.
• Traster 5y ago
  A good manager manages up and manages down. What you're describing is someone who manages down but not up.
  • dragonwriter 5y ago
    > A good manager manages up and manages down. What you're describing is someone who manages down but not up. A good employee manages up to the extent the organization they are involved in permits, a manager is just an employee whose duties inide managing down. But the truth of heirarchical organizations is that while managing down is universally expected (and is usually just called “managing”), managing “up” is...not (and, often, barely even tolerated), even among organizations where citing it as a way of victim-blaming is common.