[kanyethegreat]

loved this. when you say

> They also can't code - the degree to which my teams sucked was basically directly correlated to how good my manager's people skills were _and_ whether they had programming experience

do you mean your manager knowing how to code correlated to a good or bad team?

[ludicity]

Good question, I should have been clearer. I've heard that managers who can program can do some horrific micromanagement. To be clearer, when I've had a manager who both had good people skills and could program, life was pretty good overall. Good people skills alone was still okay in some situations, especially if they at least learned the basics of what our tech stack did conceptually. I've never had a manager who could program but had awful people skills, and from the stories, that's for the best.