[seattle_spring]

> Always micromanage down to the lines of code changes

I’ll never forget what one of my directors asked me to do a few years ago. I was a first-line eng manager with a handful of native mobile engineers. The Android guy had a better reputation for coding ability than the iOS guy, which was reflected in peer reviews come performance eval time.

Director received this feedback and instructed me to have iOS guy write his code exactly like the Android guy, down to function and var names, classes, logic, etc. No acknowledgement whatsoever that the 2 platforms use different languages, best practices, UI flows, etc., just: “Have him write the exact same code in his language and he’ll learn how to be a good engineer!”