IME the bot tier engineers who couldn’t code or think got into “scrum” and other BS to try and become engineering managers. Of course we know how that ends. Ho

IME the bot tier engineers who couldn’t code or think got into “scrum” and other BS to try and become engineering managers. Of course we know how that ends. Honestly hope we see engineering manager title die off this decade as we go through these layoffs and reorgs. Teams with a technical team lead should report to a director. It’s not that hard to slack someone if you’re blocked. We can even have an AI manager handle this kind of administrative crap. I’ve had over a dozen engineering managers I’ve worked with and only two were any good. I mean, I keep in contact with them even years later. Rest were a joke at best or mostly terrible to work with. Again I’m sure at some places this kind of arrangement works. But I’ve probably experienced more bot tier managers than bot tier engineers. And yea I’m mad about it so excuse my negative tone.