🔗 Why engineers hate their managers (and what to do about it)

Most engineers have a complicated relationship with their managers. And by “complicated,” I mean somewhere between mild annoyance and seething resentment. Having been on both sides of this — more than a decade as an engineer before switching to management — I’ve experienced this tension from every angle.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: engineers often have good reasons to be frustrated with their managers. But understanding why this happens is the first step toward fixing (or just coping with?) it.