Re:Is engineering management bullshit?
by bumby on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @12:38PM
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I'm not sure I agree here, because the manager has the ability to impact all those other hours.
A good manager helps remove the hurdles that will make those 40+ hours immensely more productive. A bad manager adds to those hurdles, potentially whittling productive hours to nothing.
Re:Is engineering management bullshit?
by pyrale on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @07:38PM
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> You spend 40+ hours a week on you and your career. Your manager spends a small fraction of that directly on your career.
If your manager has little more leverage than you do, that's true. In many orgs, managers have considerably more leverage than their reports, and their help is mandatory to get some things (promotions, pay increase, access to conferences and trainings, changing teams, passing messages up the chain or laterally, support for escalation, etc).
The only trump card the report has is leaving, but they pay for that by losing all the social capital acquired at the current company.
You spend 40+ hours a week on you and your career. Your manager spends a small fraction of that directly on your career.
100% agree that they need to be advocating for you/your team, finding the right projects for you/your team, etc, etc. But at the end of the day your career is your responsibility, and it's only a fraction of your manager's responsibility.