I'm lucky enough to have managers that care about the people under them and I think that's good enough so far. They would listen to advises/opinions, they woul

I'm lucky enough to have managers that care about the people under them and I think that's good enough so far. They would listen to advises/opinions, they would try to diffuse stressful situation, they would try to communicate what's necessary, they do negotiation fairly (got to give something to get something back). As a result, I would give more to them (within limits, of course). At the end of the day, it's a win-win situation: I make them look good, they make sure I'm happy and not burn-out. Background: both managers code before, one has MSc in Quantum Computing, the other does a lot of infrastructure/big-enterprise system (batch processing) so their backgrounds varies with the only commonality between them is that they both come from *NIX background and understand DB/Infrastructure rather quite well. It's very hard to be an engineering manager (lots of examples in this threads why they don't like their managers or their previous bad experiences) and if you found a "matching" one with you, priceless. Of course, nothing is forever...