Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti...
by tartoran on Thursday June 18, 2020 @11:58AM
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Less autonomy also means less responsibility which affects growth in a bad way, but there is a small bright side to this, it reduces the cognitive workload and one can have leftover energy for side projects and hobbies. For the ones who have absolutely no taste to bureaucracy/red tape/stupid hierarchies of command, this could be soul sucking though
Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti...
by hedora on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:18PM
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It doesn’t reduce cognitive workload for high performers.
With my previous boss, I spent 90% of my intellectual effort managing up. Despite his best efforts, the project was delivered above spec and on time (saving his ass), but I burnt so many political bridges making it happen that I ended up moving teams.
Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti...
by tartoran on Thursday June 18, 2020 @03:16PM
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My point was exactly to take your high performance outside the organization you’re working for if they don’t offer the conditions necessary such as some autonomy and agency. It’s not worth proving anything, too few people would notice of care
In the last year or so, my company has had a culture shift leading to down-to-the minute micromanagement and I've lost all autonomy - every decision requires approval of multiple managers. There's no realistic engineering salary they could pay me to continue putting up with this and I can't get out quick enough. Covid has made that a bit tough though.