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Ask HN: Direct report is a senior beginner

I was hired to manage a software development team that was said to be in deep trouble (lots of rework, bugs, production outages due to new releases, complete unknown backlog, etc).This team is small and one member has been working at this company for 7 years. He was transferred from a few areas and ended up in this team, where management mostly left him alone.On one hand, he requires a lot of...

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