You had me up until the end, when things got pretty cynical: not entirely wrong, but also few companies have purely bad managers, it's an evolving mix of good a

You had me up until the end, when things got pretty cynical: not entirely wrong, but also few companies have purely bad managers, it's an evolving mix of good and bad. A company with mostly bad management that is all pretend eventually fails. I best liked Peter Drucker's description of a manager's job: "to make individual strengths productive, and weaknesses irrelevant". It's less about the specific tech, and more about the core practices that really haven't changed too much over 10-15 years. And the higher up you go, it's more about the business and less about the tech, and those practices change even less often.