I’ll start, a previous manager at a startup had us do 20 minute daily standups that dragged because we would get in the technical weeds, this felt like micromanagement and not once provided me useful outcomes. They were clearly not versed in how our product works and never even looked at the codebase. They would frequently skip 1 on 1s and during them not give feedback on technical achievements but would instead focus on how you’re meshing with the company culture. I can’t appreciate people-pleasing managers like this, they feel like a waste of an engineer’s time and are unable to help you grow and deliver technically. I now work under a much more techincal manager and we cover more technical and career path content during 1 on 1s and I value their input so much more.
20 min stand ups daily? That is nothing. I know teams that have 3 stand ups a day, one is morning, one after lunch, one in evening, and each is 1 hr long. So 3 hrs everyday is on stand ups.
What do you update on that could have passed in those hours? And what do y’all talk about in that 1 hour? Is this a SWE team at Amazon and how many people are in these standups?
Next level of extreme micromanaging. SWE team of 5, we just rediscuss the same things over and over and over. For example, if someone is working on a bug, they have to explain every step they are doing... during every standup. Manager asks same question everyday and forgets the answers each time
There are way too many terrible and incompetent EM's plaguing the industry
They have a silver tooth with a cannibalistic smile ready to pounce on you anytime.
Don't even get me started on this. A manager at Oracle(this white canadian at ODc) would not hold 1:1s because he was afraid he would not be able to retain people. During performance evaluations, he would bring up concerns that he had a few months before as a surprise. He would live in his own reality and expect people to read his mind while working on tickets. He would ask every team member to discuss on every ticket what they are going to do on it before working and any misunderstanding/room of error (even remotely non-production critical) would lead to a discussion involving quality of work and it leading to penalizing you for your performance. This a**h**e would also penalize you if you were just waiting for other people to review your code for about 3 weeks saying you took too long to complete.
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I have a manager like that. It sucks to a point that my ear starts to hurt