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That doesn’t connect with my (FAANG) experience. The best managers are highly technical regardless of current code output.
by engcoach 3y ago
That doesn’t connect with my (FAANG) experience. The best managers are highly technical regardless of current code output.
- lifeisstillgood 3y agoBut the best managers aren't what we are talking about. Or rather, what is the point of management - to organise resources to achieve organisational objectives. Resources are now CPUs. A farm that bought a thousand tractors and combine harvesters but still tried to have the same manual labourer management practises, hiring, compensation would struggle. We are seeing old labour practises trying to meet a world where one coder can launch and co-ordinate thousands or hundreds thousands of CPUs globally. There is a management impedance mismatch