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0 pointsCharlieDigital1y ago0 comments

Incredibly hard. If there were some formula and it was really easy to just keep "the good ones", then every company would only have great managers. It's simply not that easy at scale.

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mirekrusin1y ago· 2 in thread

Ask tech leads who consistently deliver value who's good one and who's not – you'll get pretty accurate picture.

ThrowawayR21y ago

If there's a clique or patronage, simply asking may not get you the real picture.

CharlieDigitalOP1y ago

It's amazing how many smart people here think this is just a trivial problem that they can solve for big tech if big tech would only listen.

This is a fundamental human organization problem that many countless organizations of people have failed to perform optimally since people have started organizing into groups.

bb881y ago· 2 in thread

Listen to yourself. It's management's job to manage people. Some of those people are going to be managers. So management can't police themselves apparently?

I don't buy it.

TulliusCicero1y ago

Correct. It's fundamentally a problem that cannot be completely solved. People are too messy.

bb881y ago

Then managers are only a salary line -- one that can go away apparently.

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