Comment by pdimitar
1 day ago
Is it truly naive if most engineer's careers pass and they never meet even one such manager?
For 24 years of career I've met the grand total of _two_ such. Both got fired not even 6 months after I got in the company, too.
Who's naive here?
I’ve met one who asked me a question like this and he’s still at Apple having been promoted several times to a fairly senior position. But the question was only half hearted because the question was “how much CO2 would we save if we made something 10% more CPU efficient” and the answer even at Apple’s current scale of billions of iPhones was insignificant.
So now you and I both have come across such a manager. Why would you make the claim most engineer’s don’t come across such people?
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