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Re:A Terse Guide On Hiring Your First Engineering Manager by closeparen on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:03AM (#26339497)
>Seeing their job as “protecting” their team from “the business”

A good manager aligns his team with the business's actual, committed vision while protecting it from churn related to comments that senior leaders make in passing or ideas they are excited about for 5 minutes.

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Re:A Terse Guide On Hiring Your First Engineering Manager by taurath on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:05AM (#26341353)
Yea this. Being able to distill what a poor upper management sees as its actual end goals vs what they want in the moment is a huge skill. Depending on your background you can see this as being a good thing or a bad thing.
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