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A comment on “There Seem to be 10 managers for every one dev at Twitter” – Elon. Parent comment

Re:“There Seem to be 10 managers for every one dev at Twitte... by yrgulation on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:23AM (#33402045)
See, thats what incompetent management doesnt understand. Management is not about status or power or rising among ranks just to score points, its about who can best organise and coordinate. Power hungry managers dont belong in tech or science jobs.
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Re:“There Seem to be 10 managers for every one dev at Twitte... by xiphias2 on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:26AM (#33405390)
Not even organise / coordinate, that's not the most important thing that I get from the best manager, actually that's the easy part.

The best managers I had were helping me debug things when I get stuck. When there's a seg fault in a multithreaded program, or the project just doesn't seem to go anywhere for some time because I don't really know what to do or I'm going in a bad direction with my local improvements, somebody more mature than me / person with more experience just knows what to do.

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