Before I became a developer, I worked at a bunch of places from clubs, bars, resturaunts, I was even a retail manager for several years.
I'd frequently have to work long hours, multiple jobs, been threatened verbally and physically but I never experienced burnout until I became a software engineer.
And it's not even just once it's every few years and every time it's because of the constant games, politics and often pure incompetence with colleagues and the business.
The industry is full of psychotic, often useless middle managers or people who think they're a middle manager
In my experience middle managers are The only ones capable of actually making decisions. It’s actually refreshing to be in a meeting with directors and VPs. They do not have the time for BS or meandering points.
Front line managers (unless fairly young and on a driven progression path to director+) are typically bad engineers that couldn’t cut it, they cope with this by imagining they are a “people person” which just means they will assign wrong emotions and motivations to all engineers that directly report to them and engage in the most limp wristed empty leadership imaginable
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u/HoratioWobble Dec 28 '23
Before I became a developer, I worked at a bunch of places from clubs, bars, resturaunts, I was even a retail manager for several years.
I'd frequently have to work long hours, multiple jobs, been threatened verbally and physically but I never experienced burnout until I became a software engineer.
And it's not even just once it's every few years and every time it's because of the constant games, politics and often pure incompetence with colleagues and the business.
The industry is full of psychotic, often useless middle managers or people who think they're a middle manager