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> Either your boss went off on you without communicating with your direct supervisor.(unlikely) I think whether this is unlikely depends on the boss. I've work
by pdonis 5y ago
> Either your boss went off on you without communicating with your direct supervisor.(unlikely)
I think whether this is unlikely depends on the boss. I've worked under higher level bosses who would say lots of things in the spur of the moment in a meeting that they would have forgotten ten minutes after the meeting ended, and which certainly would not have led to any longer term consequences. They were just venting at whoever happened to be present. I agree this is not an ideal communication style, but that doesn't mean it's not out there. As a newbie in the organization, I would be asking for feedback from coworkers about the higher level boss's communication style.
- JamesBarney 5y agoThat's fair. But I haven't seen that communication style very often in engineering managers. I've only seen it once in an engineering manager in the last 12 years of professional development. (I saw it all the time when I worked service industry or sales jobs though.)
- pdonis 5y ago> I haven't seen that communication style very often in engineering managers. It might depend on whether "engineering manager" means "an engineer who has risen to management" or "a manager who happens to manage engineers even though they have no engineering experience themselves". The communication style I described is indeed very rare in my experience for the first type of engineering manager. But in my experience it isn't for the second. It's not clear from the OP's account which type their manager's boss is (or their manager, for that matter).
- JamesBarney 5y agoI assumed the first because OP mentions > He looks at the code and criticizes design decisions