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I must be an extreme outlier. In 20 years of career in half a dozen companies I have always had good managers. Decent persons (I called a few of them friends),
by gpderetta 1y ago
I must be an extreme outlier. In 20 years of career in half a dozen companies I have always had good managers. Decent persons (I called a few of them friends), good managers, and all extremely technically talented. Almost always even the skip level managers were also very technically competent.
- msgodel 1y agoSame. I had one bad manager and it was at a small startup run by non-technical people but doing something technical. Most corporate managers I've had have been decent.
- zug_zug 1y agoDefinitely lucky relative to my experience then. My current manager is very strong, but prior to him that manager I don't think any programming experience/background at all (he was laid off within about a year of me joining, but it felt like I was taking crazy pills watching him in meetings having no idea what anyone was saying). I also think some of the most variable managers you get are at the smallest companies. Like one company had a CTO who was 25 with no prior professional experience that I know of other than co-founding this company. He wasn't bad, bad but certainly not doing half of what he could at that level. However I've also had experiences where the manager changed 2/3 times in 2-years at a larger company, which IMO is a bad experience.