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I am so tired of hearing devs complain about managers and anyone else who doesn't think that everything revolves around the dev. There are a lot of poor, medio

I am so tired of hearing devs complain about managers and anyone else who doesn't think that everything revolves around the dev. There are a lot of poor, mediocre or bad devs as well as bad managers. The solution to these problems is not to arbitrarily get rid of most of the practitioners. There is frequently a lack of humility and self awareness in dev culture I'm afraid to say. It was one of the things that made me leave the profession.

eska 4y ago
IMO the hostility comes from the fact that a bad manager makes all devs in his team, even the good ones, underperform as a whole. A bad dev is simply.. one bad dev. One bad dev causes less damage than an incompetent manager. It’s also immediately clear when a dev is bad, but managers will weasel out of their responsibility and blame the devs, despite constantly changing requirements, asking for the impossible, not providing the necessary information and resources, etc. a dev doesn’t sabotage a manager’s work like that. Most managers also aren’t professionally qualified for their position. An education in accounting doesn’t make somebody a manager, just like computer science doesn’t make a dev a team leader.