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Maybe you're a super in demand developer in a super hot job market. However for lots of people they don't have the option of quitting on the spot over someone a
by woofcat 5y ago
Maybe you're a super in demand developer in a super hot job market. However for lots of people they don't have the option of quitting on the spot over someone asking a very direct question.
So yes the Manager is protecting them, and helping set expectations for the higher ups.
Replace higher up with Customer and you get the same system. Customer demands something unreasonable, that doesn't get filtered to the team that is working on that feature as it's just a distraction to them. Let them do the job and execute on the roadmap as planned.
- scotty79 5y agoI was just directly told that I was specifically hired to do this project that is behind schedule and important and they have no idea how to make it go faster (because they are bugging me) so they don't have another person that could do my job and they can't afford delay it even further to look for a person to replace me. If there's a better moment to negotiate, I don't know what it might be. Would hearing this be distracting for me? Sure it would be. But it's not me who would get to pay for my distractions. So it's 100% of protecting higher ups not developers.
- tibbar 5y agoAnd that's the point: It's much more efficient to have one person to run interference for a team of 5+ developers rather than having them all fight with the CTO directly. They are paying, in part, to avoid have to deal with you directly.