Shopify Elevated the Non-Manager Career Path and Ditched Meetings

Re:Shopify Elevated the Non-Manager Career Path and Ditched ... by nine_zeros on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @06:34PM (#36702600)

At my job, I was always on as a senior engineer. Management pushed all the delivery responsibility down to engineers. As a result, I was responsible for all engineers feeling good, divvying the work, ensuring project moved ahead, removing x-team roadblocks, stand-ups, jira tickets etc.

All manager did was collect status reports, weekly meetings, promo and optics documents and managing upwards. He even fired people that made him look bad.

At some point, I started asking, why am I doing all the scoping, project management, product management, people management and sprint running? What exactly is my manager doing to move the product/service ahead?

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Re:Shopify Elevated the Non-Manager Career Path and Ditched ... by akomtu on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @09:44PM (#36704090)

It looks like you're doing his work. You may try to undercut him by connecting with his managers, get his job, or get fired if he sees your plan. You may try to make it clear to him you understand this arrangement and you're fine with it, but you need more money to make your responsibility tolerable, and he will comply as you let him collect his paycheck for free. Or you might be missing something important and bringing this up will get you fired.

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