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Wouldn't startups have way less of these issues ? I'm imagining a team of 10 with 3 dev, one "manager" and the other people being business related. Lacking res
by makeitdouble 3y ago
Wouldn't startups have way less of these issues ?
I'm imagining a team of 10 with 3 dev, one "manager" and the other people being business related. Lacking resources would be something coming up naturally in every day conversations, whether a goal will tough to meet or not as well, and the manager's role also get a lot reduced as the political aspects are that more local and constrained.
"Get It Done" becomes a different beast once your manager is just one of the 4 layers separating you from the actual decision makers and their goal is just to become the bigger fish in the ocean.
- cushychicken 3y agoMaybe, but I sort of doubt it. IC -> mgmt transitions are a messy thing, and I've never personally experienced working at a startup where anyone had enough time to help the new manager get their bearings effectively. (I include myself in that group of people who made the IC->mgmt transition, and flailed.)
- makeitdouble 3y agoGood point. I kinda assume startups that have neither experienced managers/leaders nor self sustaining engineers gotta fail fast and we don't hear much about them. I've mostly seen a mixed of both, with either senior staff supporting a youngish business team, or an experienced leader team pulling in youngish staff. The most intersting one was 4 old farts in the office next to us executing on their ideas like they'd play a jazz piece, there was clear tension, they were pretty loud, and the manager guy appeared more like riding a rodeo that playing the HR drone. But they looked crazy efficient.