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pc86 on June 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing pe...

> Even in the technical manager cases I've seen

You say this as if technical managers are better managers? In my experience the opposite is almost always true.

amznthrowaway5 on June 18, 2020 [–]

At least for engineering manager positions, there shouldn't be any non-technical people. How are non-technical managers supposed to allocate work and judge how well their technical employees are performing.

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