Engineering managers exist to ensure the company is getting sufficient value out of the hundreds of thousands they’re paying for each software engineer. If goa

Engineering managers exist to ensure the company is getting sufficient value out of the hundreds of thousands they’re paying for each software engineer. If goals were always crystal clear and every SWE always had a good sense of how their work translated into business outcomes and prioritized accordingly then no, managers would not be necessary. Those conditions are often true at very early stage startups, and never true at any company over 100 employees.