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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people by trieste92 on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:27AM (#34737447)
> I’ve seen this so many times where engineers get pushed out of the way by a new lead engineer and their workloads drop significantly

From my experience whenever this happens the people who get "pushed out of the way" were useless to begin with

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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people by MonkeyClub on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:29AM (#34738797)
> were useless to begin with

Or useless with office politics, and didn’t manage to market themselves well with the new lead. It’s never been clean-cut in my experience.

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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people by cudgy on Friday February 10, 2023 @03:34PM (#34745428)
Looks like we found the guy that pushes everyone away. Who else would excuse this behavior from a “lead” developer? A lead developer should be working (or at least trying) with their team to empower the team as a whole, not blazing ahead on point leaving the squad in the dark, no matter how “brilliant” they are.
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