11–20 of 21 posts
> If you work in tech, your manager might still care about your career. They just might not have enough time to do much about it. Narrator: They never did. It is a free-for-all office politics game and it is your own responsibility and no-one else for your 'career' and it affects ALL levels from junior to senior staff.
Your career is your own responsibility. It isn’t your manager’s responsibility.
A manager that does not care about the careers of the people on their team is not a good manager If you care about being a good manager you should care about building your teams careers
Your manager can help, but they are not responsible for your career.
AI has been great as a tool, but you need humans with brainpower to operate that tool. I’ve yet to see a use case where AI has actually made my life easier. It has helped me to crank out code but I could’ve done that given time. Overall I’ve turned into a feature factory instead of having time to think about anything.
Bleak. This flat and fast structure assumes that ICs are all senior devs, able to be largely autonomous. Who supports the junior engineer who is struggling? There’s a lot of talk about how AI shifted the job market away from junior roles, but companies had already removed the management capacity for them.
Is there a newer 'be autonomous' culture? Or did I just grow up a bit? 10-20 years ago people would love to talk about technical topics. Ask help, give help, offer pointers, debate merits. Now I guess we ask AI, figure it out ourselves, and/or grin and bear it? What happened? Is it from remote work? Or everything's easy now? Or nobody wants to stick their neck out? Time constraints? Knowledge gaps? I don't struggle,…
Plus you don't want to take a risk on training a new grad anymore because usually they'll leave after a couple years, which was a good thing since you'd backfill with a new grad some other company had trained/ideas circulated in the industry/early career engineers built their networks and got exposure to different tech stacks and company styles etc. that's really tough now too since nobody else is hiring and training juniors so you would be wasting time and effort training some for some other company to hire away - nash equilibriulm vibes.
So yes something shifted- the new grad/junior market is in the gutter rn. And if AI plateaus in this range of capability idk what happens as the current generation of engineers age out/retire. The juniors that aren't being trained today are going to lead to a vacuum of senior engineers tomorrow.
> If you work in tech, your manager might still care about your career. They just might not have enough time to do much about it. Narrator: They never did. It is a free-for-all office politics game and it is your own responsibility and no-one else for your 'career' and it affects ALL levels from junior to senior staff.
So you are saying: backstab your manager and get them fired so you can take their place?
Your career is your own responsibility. It isn’t your manager’s responsibility.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A manager that does not care about the careers of the people on their team is not a good manager If you care about being a good manager you should care about building your teams careers
Your career extends beyond your current manager. Your manager can help, but they are not responsible for your career.
That really doesn't seem like it should be controversial
Your career is your own responsibility. It isn’t your manager’s responsibility.
One flaw in the article is that the sample size of surveyed people is quite small and seems biased toward a particular type of company.
Bleak. This flat and fast structure assumes that ICs are all senior devs, able to be largely autonomous. Who supports the junior engineer who is struggling? There’s a lot of talk about how AI shifted the job market away from junior roles, but companies had already removed the management capacity for them.
Is there a newer 'be autonomous' culture? Or did I just grow up a bit? 10-20 years ago people would love to talk about technical topics. Ask help, give help, offer pointers, debate merits. Now I guess we ask AI, figure it out ourselves, and/or grin and bear it? What happened? Is it from remote work? Or everything's easy now? Or nobody wants to stick their neck out? Time constraints? Knowledge gaps? I don't struggle,…