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People managers in tech are overpaid for what they bring to the table. I've seen many whose whole job is: * 1:1 with members of the team * Judge others (durin
by gerash 4y ago
People managers in tech are overpaid for what they bring to the table. I've seen many whose whole job is:
* 1:1 with members of the team
* Judge others (during perf review) based one noisy signals
* Play politics with other parts of the org to ensure the survival and growth of your own team
* Plan team building events (sometimes done by their assistants)
They rarely care about the end user, the product, technical decisions, etc.
So even though people management is needed the money shouldn't be in the management track.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoI think the uncomfortable reality is that managers deal with a workforce who are not actually aligned to business outcome incentives (no meaningful ownership stake, usual reward of harder work is more work, etc) which ends up taking a lot of “work” to manage (finding quick fix issues and cheap rewards for workers, mythologizing the work, intimidating performance outcomes, getting workers to talk with them about issues instead of with their peers, etc)