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I don't think the good takeaway is to "never be a manager", more of don't be a corpo manager of stuff that's someone else's vision. It's not the difficulty of t

I don't think the good takeaway is to "never be a manager", more of don't be a corpo manager of stuff that's someone else's vision. It's not the difficulty of the learning or necessarily the people but the circumstances that surround it. I think having management perspective is excellent to understand the contexts behind what is being built and why things are seemingly inefficient and broken. Gives more insight into solutions and what may not be effectively communicated. Memes as usual.

askonomm 3y ago
In my opinion you don't have to be a manager to know all these things. In fact, every good senior engineer should be aware of what the leadership is trying to accomplish anyway, as we're not just code monkeys, but rather problem solvers. If this isn't actively communicated to you by managers themselves (it often isn't), then you should proactively ask questions yourself, as like you said, it would give more insight into solutions.