In my career, the big cancer has been decent engineers thinking they're good managers and end up making everyone up and down the chain miserable because all the

In my career, the big cancer has been decent engineers thinking they're good managers and end up making everyone up and down the chain miserable because all they know is a command-and-control style managing, or passive-aggressive style managing where the reports don't necessarily know they're being left on the line to dry. It has been super rare for me to see managers who are just filling a position and grifting. Perhaps the only time was at a large defense contractor where I interned in college.