Comment by moomoo11

I honestly wonder how useful most managers are..

Just anecdotal ofc but over my career having worked for 14 managers.

Half of them were eventually fired.

Most of them sucked at rallying teams, mainly because who the f is going to follow a doofus cringe lord?

2 managers stand out to me in my career. I’m really good friends with one of them that I’ve been in contact with for over a decade now.

Most were basically checkbox checkers who sucked at engineering and faked their way into “people management” only to be found out that they just plain suck as employees. I actually checked LinkedIn just now of a few of those bad ones and they work at small companies and have made no upward progress. Not surprised honestly.

Keep in mind I worked at a pretty good place, not a noob tier place.