> These "issue traced to staffer" stories sound like management cover up for management/system shortcomings to me. At the end of the day, the engineers are res

> These "issue traced to staffer" stories sound like management cover up for management/system shortcomings to me. At the end of the day, the engineers are responsible for the engineering. Managers are responsible for managing. Shifting all responsibility for execution issues on to management can give warm fuzzies, but in reality managers aren’t all powerful in shaping execution by engineers. Companies that put all blame on managers when things fail are inevitably encumbered with excessive micromanagement, as the managers are effectively saddled with responsibility for execution as well. The article was purely anonymous. I don’t think it’s fair to assume they’re jumping to blame or fire individual engineers.