[michaelt]

If you work at google and it takes 7 forms to promote one guy, either you’re filling out 7 forms or your guys aren’t getting promoted.

Then you get to do 20 hours of interviews trying to hire their replacement instead.

So you get a choice - but not much of one.

[hackernewds]

Being a good manager is shielding your technical ICs from the whims and BS processes crafted by non-technical ICs.

[mythhouse]

being a human BS shield doesn't sound like a job anyone would be excited to go to work everyday.

Ppl do this just for money?

[ethanbond]

Well they also don’t think this is what the job actually is, so they pursue it incorrectly and then, shocker, become very bad managers.