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I read this meme so often on HN, so I genuinely want to know: how do you organize work and get people to act on a common vision if there are no managers? I thi
by DandyDev 3y ago
I read this meme so often on HN, so I genuinely want to know: how do you organize work and get people to act on a common vision if there are no managers?
I think people mistake “manager” as being people without tech skills. I think a tech company should have managers to create alignment and those managers should spend part of their time “managing” and part of their time still honing their tech skills.
- gtirloni 3y agoIn my experience, people will use "managers" as a proxy for complaining about all the other things they don't like. Of course clueless managers and extreme bureaucracy will destroy a company, but I very often see engineers that just want to do X and ignore everything around it as if they were working in a isolated environment. It's often the managers calling these engineers back to reality, which creates tension.
- sph 3y agoThe issue is you literally cannot be an engineer if you don't know how to build things. On the other hand, there are plenty of managers that do not know how to manage people, that do not even know what is expected of them. Should they optimize for cost? For productivity? For employee happiness? Competent managers are a minority. They tend to rise quickly, leaving the inept ones to run the day-to-day.