Comment by agentultra

This is great advice. It will work for introspective, self-reflecting managers who honestly want to do better.

Such a manager is extremely rare.

Most will be oblivious to their own biases and cognitive short-comings.

I don't think most "bad managers," even know that they're bad at their job. There's no accountability, no metrics, no performance reviews, no studies on their productivity... mostly because their "job" is to be the proxy for the power of the shareholders.

I applaud anyone who finds themselves an engineering manager and wants to be good at what they do and work for their team. It's hard to find a good manager.

But the only recourse for an IC under a bad manager is to quit or find another team to work on.