> Not saying they don’t add value, but they get hired and rewarded way more than the value they add and ultimately drown the company
I thought similarly when I was younger, but then I became a manager and realized it’s not so black and white.
Going back to IC developer (for a while) was a surprising relief from the stresses of managing people.
I know some companies let managers run wild and make devs do all the work, but most successful tech companies actually have very high demands of managers. A decent manager will be good at hiding all of the behind-the-scenes issues from the team, but I didn’t truly understand the volume of problems managers quietly deal with until I was in the role.
I thought similarly when I was younger, but then I became a manager and realized it’s not so black and white.
Going back to IC developer (for a while) was a surprising relief from the stresses of managing people.
I know some companies let managers run wild and make devs do all the work, but most successful tech companies actually have very high demands of managers. A decent manager will be good at hiding all of the behind-the-scenes issues from the team, but I didn’t truly understand the volume of problems managers quietly deal with until I was in the role.