How to reward skilled coders with something other than people management

Re:How to reward skilled coders with something other than pe... by codeonfire on Sunday November 23, 2014 @01:04AM (#8647972)

Managers create the BS, so they can hardly be credited with shielding people from it. They also create a lot of BS for their own reports such as playing the "your job is to make me look good" game, or having devs do a bunch of leg work so they can present everything as their own ideas.

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Re:How to reward skilled coders with something other than pe... by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Sunday November 23, 2014 @02:37PM (#8649634)

Those are stereotypical bad managers, not ALL managers. I know a lot of great managers who are not like that. And even the ones that failed didn't fail due to malice or vanity. Most people I've encountered want to build cool things, even the managers, and they often know their strength is not in coding.

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Re:How to reward skilled coders with something other than pe... by jghn on Sunday November 23, 2014 @09:13AM (#8648829)

Bad managers, sure. Not the sort that I'm talking about.

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