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Why Engineers Hate Their Managers (and What to Do About It)

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85 points signa11 | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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aitchnyu ◴[25 Jun 25 05:53 UTC] No.44374000[source]▶
IME I blame Telephone(aka Chinese whispers) being the default communication between ICs and skip level manager. A skip level should address a team in writing instead of the manager vaguely mentioning things. Communications among a team should happen in a public channel instead of DMs.
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1. dilyevsky ◴[25 Jun 25 06:40 UTC] No.44374243[source]▶
This is super underdone these days. Management likes to talk about the importance of communication till the cows come home but somehow that's mostly upward directed, rarely downward.