The thrills and challenges of managing engineers!
We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else
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From the coding horror article I learned that geographic diversity is important.




Love this post (and most of the stuff he writes)
glad you found it useful!
I did, greenie. His blog posts are jam packed full of good stuff.
Engineering management is hard. So much to learn!
Last week I finally spent time with one of the only other women working with the engineering side. We passed a very fruitful and therapeutic hour talking about the frustration of working with Guys Like The Boss, who all tunnel-vision on their own projects and complain about other departments and won't. work. with. other. people.
WASP dudes, is2g. All it would take would be some kind of cooperative spirit and the ability to admit they are wrong.
Is there a good way for you two to bring this up, or would doing so create more problems?
The only reason I got hired was nepotism--I'm Boss's daughter. Even though I'm pretty good at my job (despite how unhelpful they are), they already resent me. If I stick my neck out too forcefully, work will get uncomfortable in a real hurry.
My job involves talking to each and every department in detail about technical shit I don't understand. It's already awkward as hell. I have to walk very softly and present bits and pieces of help like I'm trying to do each of them a ~special favor~.
Other woman's helpful, though. She's good about translating for me and telling me where trouble is, and she has no problems being Bad Cop.
Sounds like you're really good at your job and so is she.
Do you think you'll do anything or just keep quiet about it?
Link to the original article on Coding Horror:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-hire-the-best-just-like-everyone-else/