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0 pointsbutterlesstoast1mo ago0 comments

I respected the "No Pure Managers" part. That's similar to what happened at our org.

The question remains, if there are no pure managers, then is this CSM / Sales shipping production code? If yes, then it's indeed scary...

> No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams.

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jr35921mo ago· 1 in thread

> No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams.

This has always been the case where I work, long before AI.

CryptoBanker1mo ago

> This has always been the case where I work, long before AI.

And surely the place you work hired with this in mind. Many places have not, and yet now expect PMs who haven’t coded in years, or in many cases not at all, to contribute to their products’ codebases.

zdragnar1mo ago

I've strongly disliked every team where this was the case. The people in those positions ended up being neither good managers nor good engineers.

YMMV, I suppose, but this combined with the AI nonsense just makes the dislike even harder.

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just_once1mo ago

Can anyone think of a single successful player-coach in the entire history of sports? Why would this be a good model?

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tapoxi1mo ago

Gotta be fun being a strong and active IC with 15 direct reports.

dyauspitr1mo ago

No pure managers is a shitty situation where anything people related is an after thought. That’s how you end up with a shoddy crew with a revolving door.

vidro31mo ago

what a weird thing to emulate. player coaching is super rare and there were very few good ones in the last 40 years.

why not, managers should be like left handed specialist relievers, they come in for a short time to handle a specific issue and otherwise let the team alone

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