Does anyone else have a non technical manager managing technical teams? Mine has no idea what she is doing and has destroyed a once functioning team. She makes a fool of herself at meetings daily and generally falls back on the bureaucracy of Intel when she is stuck and wants to assert authority.
The worst thing is her boss is a carbon copy who is also completely out of her depth so both are free to destroy the department from the inside. Can anyone relate? How does this happen?
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@OP: this is what happens when you hire people based on DEI, URM and gender quotas as opposed to merit or qualifications.
It is the primary reason Intel is in a tailspin.
Some engineers are so smart they can't even communicate with others. The non technical mangers talk to other humans so, the engineers don't have to.
Yep, DIE dotards. See the guy twice a week at scrum. He comes in to talk about how diverse our team is. Points out people diverse backgrounds as if they were a token. Then says see you next week. Doesn't even ask about the projects we are working on. Just says keep doing good work. We seemingly do pointless work with no direction.
I had one manager who asked me what is RTL/Verilog. During perf assessment I asked him back how he measures my work if he didn't even know the complexity and technical aspect of it. That discussion quickly went downhill. Learned my lesson the hardway, i never questioned managers again. never questioned their judgement, decisions, Just do the work, and be on my way !
I feel that most of the upper management really has no clue what they’re doing. Every week they start the same discussion and every week I have explain why the stuff they want to do either isn’t possible or won’t work, yet somehow I’m not getting promoted. They make way too much money for what they do. They take input from people who know what’s up, then go to 20 meetings to circlej--kover with their peers. This is exactly why I’m polishing my resume.
This sounds like why i left GSEM.
Experience shows me incompetence is gender neutral
The BTO post is the best. I do not think most people here know what BTO is.... sad.
I think my manager’s technical? I guess someone else on the team makes all the technical decisions now
"Have you tried rebooting your computer?"
@aq best use of AI, top down. No desk, no mandate. All greatness!
We are going to replace AI managers to improve intelligences for you soon. Don't worry for your current id--t managers.
YOUR SAYING I CANT BE TECHNICAL BECAUSE IM A WOMEN! …..Not because I have online MBA from Michigan State.
Here is what I say at my 1:1’s:
- well what DO YOU think is a possible solution?
- did you try clearing your cache?
There are people who do the work and there are people who just want to present PowerPoints of your work and steal the credit. At Intel, the fakers get promoted to management. This started the day Gordon Moore retired and has been consistent for years.
My manager always had the same suggestion for fixing any problem we ever encountered: "Have you tried clearing your browser cookies?"
Sadly, it was never the solution. Bless her little non-technical heart.
My previous manager didn't even know what project I was working on and marked my OKRs as missed with a big speech. "Failure keeps you driven. You need to fail now to be successful someday". Glad I found my way out.
Yes, it happens to nearly all groups in my org. All managers are non technical. They destroyed many groups.
Sounds like your privilege speaking. Now get back to work!