Again, signs you are working at a crappy place. Those places are incompetent and you should move to somewhere where it is competent. I have actually been a ma

Again, signs you are working at a crappy place. Those places are incompetent and you should move to somewhere where it is competent. I have actually been a manager at a big tech and a small start up, and yes there is politics at all sizes, but its extremely rare for an engineering manager to not have been an engineer previously. I was that manager, being the mentor.