Comment by itsmemattchung
3 years ago
> The best just get bored and move on.
Or a reorg happens and you land a shitty manager.
To be fair, almost all my managers were amazing, people who truly cared about their staff: at professional level as well as a personal level.
I've only had one absolute psychopath as a manager ... but I should thank him because he was the last straw and gave me enough courage (and anger) to leave AWS and start my journey as a solo entrepreneur.
Oddly enough I joined AWS not too long ago and while the job itself sucks, my manager is exceptionally awesome. In fact I only interviewed with AWS as kind of a half-joke, but he was so likeable that it convinced me to take it seriously. He has a healthy "fuck em" attitude when it comes to pressure from outside the team, so he's constantly protecting us in a multitude of ways (e.g. during on-call rotations or deadlines being imposed on us). He has yet to do a single thing that I would consider micro-management.
We need more stories like that :D