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Managing Gentoo - from a user POV

Managing Gentoo - from a user POV

Posted Aug 31, 2006 18:40 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Managing Gentoo - from a user POV by MathFox
Parent article: Managing Gentoo - a study in quotes

From my professional experience I can tell that the best engineering managers don't interfere when their engineers make technical decisions.
Amen. When managers want to mingle in technical decisions (or when engineers are expected to tackle economic issues) things get awkward.

By the way, would you like to be my boss? :D


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Managing engineers

Posted Sep 1, 2006 12:52 UTC (Fri) by MathFox (guest, #6104) [Link]

By the way, would you like to be my boss? :D
No! I like engineering too much, don't want to be a manager.

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