Comment by chem83
> fire mid-management and PMs to prevent the same thing from happening again
Firing PMs and mid-management would not prevent any of code reds you may have read about from Google or OAI lately. This is a very naive perspective of how decision making is done at the scale of those two companies. I'm sorry you had bad experiences working with people in those positions and I wish you have the opportunity to collab with great ones in the future.
Yeah the reflexive anti-PM anti-management stance posted above is typical here and of devs in general.
In theory, some engineers think they are perfectly capable of doing all the PMs work and all their own.
If they’ve never worked with a truly good PM, that’s a shame, they’d likely get more work done in a more timely fashion. I’ve worked with around 10 different PMs, the best kept stuff on track and aided with collaboration, reqs management, soft skills, handling tough customers, etc. they free up devs to do more dev work and less other work.