Deficient management skills. And worse, management that won't acknowledge it's deficient. Managing a remote team is a skill, or more accurately a set of skill

Deficient management skills. And worse, management that won't acknowledge it's deficient. Managing a remote team is a skill, or more accurately a set of skills. No, you probably can't do it well right out of the gate. Yes, you'll probably have to work harder at it than you would having a team in one open plan office. Yes, it will take you time to learn. But if you're really being held back by a lack of engineering talent, if that's genuinely keeping you from being more successful, you'd be much better off if you put the time and effort into learning it.