> My relationship with my manager was much more of a peer partnership than manager/IC. To all the managers out there please make note of the above. Do yourself

> My relationship with my manager was much more of a peer partnership than manager/IC. To all the managers out there please make note of the above. Do yourself a favour and please give senior engineers enough autonomy and freedom. At my previous place I managed a senior engineer and made it amply clear to him that we are peers. Between us my job was to handle all the bureaucracy (including scheduling meetings, finding meeting rooms etc.,) and his was to be the team's tech lead.