I really liked my engineering management at Netflix. They really got the balance right. They sat in meetings with other management to sort out the big picture

I really liked my engineering management at Netflix. They really got the balance right. They sat in meetings with other management to sort out the big picture items and then passed relevant context on to us so we could figure out the engineering solutions to the problems that they had identified across the company (to go along with the engineering solutions to problems we had identified in our own org that we could solve). They really helped the engineers save time in coordination while not getting in the way. I think the key was that management didn't tell us what to do -- they told us what they company as a whole wanted to accomplish and how our team fit into that puzzle, and then we figured out the details.