Re:What does my engineering manager do all day?
by 88913527 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @04:30AM
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If your manager shields you too well, you may not know when potentially cataclysmic organizational changes are coming. Especially if this is paired with your manager falling out of favor with their manager.
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Re:What does my engineering manager do all day?
by borski on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:02AM
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It is your manager’s job to know when to shield you and when to bring you up to speed. A good manager never lets you get caught off-guard, because that is how you quickly lose great engineers.
Re:What does my engineering manager do all day?
by WJW on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:23AM
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I agree that having a good manager makes all the difference, but have never yet figured out a way to get assigned only to good managers.
Re:What does my engineering manager do all day?
by borski on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @06:08PM
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Yeah, the only sure way is to "move jobs by manager." This is why employees will often follow good managers from one company to another.
Re:What does my engineering manager do all day?
by Traster on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @06:39PM
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A good manager manages up and manages down. What you're describing is someone who manages down but not up.
Re:What does my engineering manager do all day?
by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @06:48PM
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> A good manager manages up and manages down. What you're describing is someone who manages down but not up.
A good employee manages up to the extent the organization they are involved in permits, a manager is just an employee whose duties inide managing down.
But the truth of heirarchical organizations is that while managing down is universally expected (and is usually just called “managing”), managing “up” is...not (and, often, barely even tolerated), even among organizations where citing it as a way of victim-blaming is common.