Promoting Good Engineers

please stop turning good engineers into bad managers by "promoting" them

A tweet from a senior operations engineer asks people to stop promoting technically skilled engineers into management roles, because management may turn them into ineffective managers. The joke criticizes the common assumption that strong individual contributors automatically make good managers. EN: A tweet from a senior operations engineer asks people to stop promoting technically skilled engineers into management roles, because management may turn them into ineffective managers. The joke criticizes the common assumption that strong individual contributors automatically make good managers.

• @profunctor_io / 4895 2020-07-07