A study finds that bosses can be useful but also sneaky

Re:A study finds that bosses can be useful but also sneaky by romanovcode on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @10:25AM (#21334931)

I think you don't understand the reason for middle-management. Let me paint you a picture where if you'd be CTO (or any other top-management) you'd be greatful for middle-management.

Imagine you are CTO of a pretty successful eCommerce company.

What you need to oversee as a CTO:

- iPhone and Android application

- Front-End Website application

- Back-End Website application

- SAP (Or something similar) integrations for billing and documenting

- BI infrastructure and reporting via tool like Tablou/Salesforce or similar integration with replica read-only DB

- DevOps (AWS, Azure, GC, or similar) maintanence and R&D

- Bonus: A lot of meetings with other top-management regarding company stuff (structure, plans, vision, etc..)

Now, how many people (Developers, QA, DevOps, BI, ...) do you think work under you - at minimum 30 (bare in mind I'm talking about successful stable company, not a 2-man garage startup).

Do you really think one guy will want to deal with all the 1-1 bullshit, day-to-day operations, everyoen asking raises, people leaveing, people coming (hiring)? It is literally impossible.

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Re:A study finds that bosses can be useful but also sneaky by goatinaboat on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:57AM (#21335928)

I think you don't understand the reason for middle-management.

I think I do, I’ve worked at places with more middle-managers than engineers! They mainly held meetings with each other all day as us engineers got on with the real work, self-organised when necessary.

It wasn’t too bad since we were mostly left alone but we still resented their generous salaries being paid off our labour.

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