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Re:Guide to scaling engineering organizations by ChrisCinelli on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @06:14PM (#18613731)
Completely in agreement. Hire a bad leader when the company is growing and you risk one year later to have the whole company infested by all sort of people that you would not like to have around (managers included).

Some companies completely screw up themselves because of this. Startups usually do not think about this early enough and when the founders realize what is going on is too late and the company culture is screwed.

My favorite Steve Job's video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQKis2Cfpeo

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Re:Guide to scaling engineering organizations by cakes on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:26PM (#18614193)
Especially if you witness it as an employee and run it up the chain as far as possible and it gets ignored.

Having had good and bad in my career has saved me from realizing that this was happening and that I shouldn't sit idle but if I'm not idle and do something it becomes extremely disheartening to watch this happen (and then I leave when it becomes apparent that nothing will be done and I'm miserable under my manager)

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Re:Guide to scaling engineering organizations by ChrisCinelli on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:50PM (#18614352)
In a company with these kind of problems, if you try to run it up the chain, it usually gets "captured" very early on from allied powers of the bad guy. In a healthy company with the right "antibodies" in places, a bad apple has more chances of being caught before it spoils the whole bunch.
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