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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Peter principle in effect

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ime it usually goes the other way, someone is such a great engineer that they end up in a leadership position that they absolutely lack the soft skills for and either end up making everyone on the team resent them or burning themselves out by trying to take on work they're having trouble delegating

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

And then the organization doesn't bother to train them how to be a better manager.