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So now they have to adjudicate the technical opinions of their engineers. Engineer #1 says they should hire person X for various technical reasons. Engineer #2
by spangry 4y ago
So now they have to adjudicate the technical opinions of their engineers. Engineer #1 says they should hire person X for various technical reasons. Engineer #2 says they should hire person Y for various other technical reasons. How does a non-technical manager decide which opinion is 'better'?
- querulous 4y agothey don't. you ask the team to come to a consensus on their own and if they don't just pick someone to make the decision and then pick someone else the next time you have to pick managers thinking they know better than their reports is the source of basically all team dysfunction in tech
- kcplate 4y agoThis always sounds good in theory but in practice is a disaster. At least in my experience.
- mnsc 4y agoAnd a technical manager is either one of engineer #1 and #2 and can hire X or Y depending on their own biases without consulting anyone else. Is this 'better'?