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My tech lead is an idiot

His code is terrible, and he’s intuitions are usually super wrong. And to top it off, he is not very productive — our junior engineers are lapping him on tickets closed.

Yet this guy outranks most our team by two levels. But my manager is not very technical, so he can’t detect his BS (and he is somewhat of an idiot himself).

But this guy is very gregarious and extroverted — the business folks like him.

I am super annoyed because I have to fix this guys bugs, and ACTUALLY do the technical leading myself — yet I get no credit. I’m ready to quit this job or make some kind of lateral move to another team. What should I do?

34 points gnee 6 years ago 42 comments

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