alex-warren

Absolutely this. There's a lot of nice talk in this thread about empowering and enabling your team - but in my experience, that's not what companies are hiring tech leads and managers for. They're hiring you to get stuff shipped!

So understand your own manager's approach to management, and make sure you're aligned with it. Recently I was in a job where my own "servant leadership" style clashed quite badly with my boss, who was much more focussed on management "driving delivery" of projects. It did not end well.

If you encountered a problem like this when applying via Stack Overflow, can you let us know which job it was?

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You're right. It's easy to forget how small a percentage of people actually use Twitter in the first place - but they often seem like they perceive themselves to be representative of everybody else. (Or worse, more important and "influential")