[Bartweiss]

> So you get this weird situation where at the junior levels, the supervisor knows more than the supervised. At the more senior levels, that's usually inverted.

And on some level, this makes sense. A completely junior employee may well need substantial guidance, and if they aren't reliable that won't necessarily be easy to predict - so you get them a supervisor who can evaluate their work in full. A midlevel or upper-level manager ought to be competent enough to perform reliably, and it's more useful to have someone above them with skills they don't have.

(Of course, hiring is a mess, and "senior staff ought to be qualified and reliable" is not the same as "senior staff are...")