[menaerus]

They hire an engineering manager that has never or hardly has done any serious coding. Alternative is that they hire an engineering manager experienced in coding but strongly opinionated and highly biased. Middle ground is an endemic occurrence.

[muzani]

Or done serious coding but on an entirely different codebase. Unless they've been doing code reviews, they likely won't get it.

Our hack for this was just to make the most experienced engineer on a platform do all the performance review stuff that the manager would otherwise do. It puts them out of action for a while, but it's better than the alternative.