[moomoo11]

I’ve had over a dozen managers and they were useless. Every few quarters there’d be a re org as the company grew and we would shuffle teams.

It was a mess and the common point was a useless Eng manager who never remembered shit and usually contributed jack shit.

But I had one cool manager who was old and rich. He was cool and harmlessly incompetent.

[raw_anon_1111]

Once you move beyond a mid level developer [1], line level managers are more or less useless in my experience. They don’t control raises, promotions, budgets or strategies.

I worked at two companies before I got into consulting where I was recruited to lead major hairy initiatives, the conditions of employment for both was that I wanted to report to the director/cto - someone who controlled budgets.

[1] no matter what your title is, if you are just pulling well defined tasks off the board, you’re a mid level developer.