I can tell my engineering management's job is utter BS. Their entire job is 0. Scope out work for the next quarter - done by PM and engineers 1. Track enginee

I can tell my engineering management's job is utter BS. Their entire job is 0. Scope out work for the next quarter - done by PM and engineers 1. Track engineering work using JIRA points or some status reports - automatically generated 2. Perform some 9 point exercise to stack rank people every 6 months on the basis of JIRA points (automatically generated) and # of commits (also automatically generated) - most of this work is automatically generated 3. Give bonuses to the top of the stack and PIP the bottom - work actually done by HR 4. Open requisition for a backfill - work actually done by HR 5. Interview them for 6 months - also mostly done by engineers and recruiters 6. After they are hired, subject them to the same meat grinder - work done by engineers. All the work is actually done by someone else. This management role (and all the 7 managers above them) are all just this glue. Why not just automate all this work? Before someone responds with "people problems" and "management philosophies", please - all the above work is administrative assistant work that does not need higher salaries than engineers. And "people problems" can be handled by HR.