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>According to the Apple co-founder, the best employees are also a pain in the butt to manage. Said to me by every single manager, for the reasons of not follow
by tamimio 3y ago
>According to the Apple co-founder, the best employees are also a pain in the butt to manage.
Said to me by every single manager, for the reasons of not following a faulty process (a one that I even suggested to fix) or attending the usual silly and useless meetings and always thought it’s a “me-problem” for being “anti-authority” despite over delivering every requirement with a very happy clients we had in a very short period of time, I’m glad someone somewhere agreed with me for once, nice article. The question is, how do you communicate that in the hiring process to eliminate any potential management style that will cause a headache for both of you later, do you just say I’m pain to manage?
- dan-robertson 3y agoI guess you say you’re focused on product / driven by delivering value to customers. And in interviews you would want some realistic examples of scenarios where you would want to go one way and you think the kind of manager you dislike would prefer the other way. You can hopefully pose those as questions to better understand how processes work at the company. The problem is the questions need to not have an obvious right answer (you want to avoid ‘used car salesman mentality’ of telling you what they think you want to hear). Or you can just ask about working style/process in general.
- tarruda 3y agoInstead of being a 10x engineer, dial down your performance to match the rest of the team. Then, use the extra time/energy to work on side projects that make you happy.
- xiphias2 3y agoYou probably don't (yet) have the power to fix the process, so it's better to learn the game of getting promoted first. Also you wrote that you suggested a change in the process, not that it was accepted.