As someone who watched a company grow from 15 to 400 people in a rushed time, I found that distinguishing good manager from the bad ones is easy. Good manager c

As someone who watched a company grow from 15 to 400 people in a rushed time, I found that distinguishing good manager from the bad ones is easy. Good manager cares and bad manager don't. Bad manager asks questions, but then discard the part that is not important to them, even though the team needs the manager to understand it. Good manager asks questions and understand (at least try to) if this is important for the team, for the project, and for the company. When they ask about deadlines and estimate, they ask why, and they try to deduct, and they remember. Good manager that works in the business selling technical product attempt to understand the technical part of the product instead of blindly "delegating" it and demanding things done. Good manager tries to improve all aspect in the team. The process efficiency. The communication blockers. I've seen first hand a manager, having no technical background, getting capable of reading C++ code over time to help the struggling team, and yet does not realize to have been so technical. Kind of having an impostor syndrome. Because they care so much. I've also seen first hand a manager that only cares about deadlines and presenting good stuff upwards. They don't care about details unless asked by their superior. And once asked for details, they act like messenger owls and echo servers.