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by watwut 3057 days ago
> A manager is reluctant to hire a star programmer that could run laps around them and upstages them.

I don't think so. I have seen something of the sort, but it was an engineer purposefully not hiring too good people.

Management is a quite different skill, good programmer is not threat to manager.

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One of my favorite comments on HN for this subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15108883.