[vajrabum]

Engineers generally don't take over the manager's responsibilities unless they're technical or reporting responsibilites. Generally it's another manager. Most companies require management involvement in P0 incident response for an example. At most companies I've worked at an engineer generally wouldn't be an acceptable substitute. A peer or the manager's boss usually takes it in their absence. It's not unusual that a significant portion of management responsibilities aren't visible to their individual contributor direct reports.

[drewcoo]

> require management involvement in P0 incident response

So in companies with lots of P0s, managers are missed more? Interesting take.

[vajrabum]

No it's simply an example of the sort of duty that management does not delegate to ICs. There are many.