| > People who are ending up as managers are rarely highly trained in the job or receiving a ton of support. > Often just attracting bad personalities. > Its always someone who wants to do something different then engineering, they become a manager. You are saying these things as though they are simple truths that I am just supposed to accept. But I do not. People who end up as managers are selected for their potential and receive lots of support, more often than not. Often attracting great personalities since the job is about interfacing with people, more often than not. It's always someone who wants to do management, whether or not they want to continue engineering, more often than not. > Imagine if we hired engineers because someones friend thought it sounded interesting and they had to do all their learning on the job. Yea, sounds terrible. It's a darn good thing we don't hire engineers or managers like this. |
> managers are selected for their potential and receive lots of support
This support im questioning. Its all on the job training. I went to business school, i actually have a business degree. I didn't leave that school feeling like i should manage or lead. The "training" is on the job, the people who teach are your small peer of manager peers and maybe some corporate style training. Corporate training has never been effective from what I have seen.