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I'm more inclined to believe management is dysfunctional more than it's actually functional. The real question is how dysfunctional is it?

I realize this is a cynical take, but management is largely about power and control than it is about furthering the business. RTO is a great example of this.

Here are some examples I've encountered over the years.

One manager used her directs as a dating pool.

Another one purposely hired a bad engineer because of stack ranking so they could protect the good engineers.