If your manager has no power to decide what you work on, who gets promoted, what...

		username90 on May 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All the best engineering advice I stole from non-t... If your manager has no power to decide what you work on, who gets promoted, what deadlines you should have, who is to blame when things go wrong, who to fire etc, then sure he doesn't need to be technical. Otherwise he will just promote and listen to the popular guys and fire the unpopular ones.

Maybe he might, but she might not.