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Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job by watwut on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:00AM (#33248276)
Some. But there is also that thing where manager is supposedly paid for superior social skills. And lately I am realizing, that good 80% of communication work in the manager-developer relationship or within team is on developers. I mean, yeah, partly it goes with power differential where person lower on hierarchy has to do that work and management simply dont have to.

But seriously, it would be nice if managers would put a bit more thoughts and effort into ... communicating and people.

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Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job by duxup on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:02AM (#33248315)
Agreed, it is a two way street... but that means both have to participate for it to work too.

Sometimes I think the fact that some devs move into management / senior type roles, not always great for communication. Yeah they can talk about bits, but the rest gets lost at times.

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Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job by watwut on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @07:25AM (#33260518)
> Sometimes I think the fact that some devs move into management / senior type roles, not always great for communication. Yeah they can talk about bits, but the rest gets lost at times.

Not a single person I had in mind was previous developer. Just to be clear. As much as it is popular to knee jerk assume that developers dont have social skills, this one is much LESS pronounced with developers.

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