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0 pointsanchochilis3y ago0 comments

Your management style sounds like it would rapidly kill creativity and innovation, psych safety, and codebase quality.

I hold myself to high standards and have been described as a top performer by every manager I've ever had.

I am disciplined and work extra hours as needed to ship. I am constantly thinking about the product and the engineering challenges we face outside of working hours. But sometimes things take longer than expected, sometimes complexity estimates are off, every so often I have a bad week due to personal reasons. Having to conduct a team-wide postmortem every time a ticket rolls over into the next sprint sounds exhausting and I'd start looking for a new job stat. At a minimum it's a huge amount of communication overhead when you should trust me to get my job done, especially considering my track record.

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lettergram3y ago

> Your management style sounds like it would rapidly kill creativity and innovation, psych safety, and codebase quality.

Couldn’t be further from the truth. I ran an applied research team for years. We had hundreds of patents, multiple publications, a growing open source project, multiple presentations a year, delivered a couple of the highest priority projects, and were consultants company wide for deep learning.

I was always fine with delays, but you had to discuss them and collaborate. Come to the team, explain, then we could prioritize accordingly (5 min). It’s not a big deal, but always required high communication. That’s difficult in a remote environment, but that’s why you have regular meetings & have to be more strict than normal about planning.

Perhaps it wouldn’t be an environment for you, that’s fair. But a project isn’t about you, it’s about a deliverable; often a team effort. If 10 min of communication a day is too much, idk then.

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