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Because when a milestone is missed or the product sucks it's the managers ass not the individual engineers. It's all about responsibility
by sergiotapia 12y ago
Because when a milestone is missed or the product sucks it's the managers ass not the individual engineers.
It's all about responsibility
- butwhy 12y agoI agree. They take on more responsibility for ensuring the business can operate as a business. Just like why sales people get paid more. There is no point in having engineers if they can't all collaborate on key ideas that will steer towards business goals to achieve profitability and long term existence etc.
- jchendy 12y agoI don't know how common this usage is, but where I work, we'd say that the engineer is "responsible" and the manager is "accountable." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matri...