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Re:Engineering management lessons (2014) by sanderjd on Saturday May 20, 2017 @11:31AM (#14382826)
It sounds like you've run into some bad apples, likely due to "promoted too early" syndrome, which is unfortunately pretty common. In my experience, code review by senior engineers is extremely valuable whether or not they're currently writing much code.
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Re:Engineering management lessons (2014) by Spooky23 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @01:35PM (#14383432)
That's why coding managers is dumb.

The army figured it out. The Officers are in charge, but the sergeants get shit done. In engineering, your leads/supervisors are the sergeants.

Officer quality varies between complete shitbird and Julius Ceasar. Either way, the army marches.

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Re:Engineering management lessons (2014) by dismantlethesun on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:26PM (#14383615)
Sound like tech leads are sergeants and project managers are officers.
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Re:Engineering management lessons (2014) by Spooky23 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:36PM (#14383659)
That's where the analogy breaks a bit. Where I work, PMs don't "own" people, just deliverables.

Their main weapon is pestering you.

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