Comment by jfim
12 hours ago
It's bumping to manager level, except without the 1:1s, quarterly/yearly planning, headcount and budget reviews, org/reorg discussions, performance calibration, and OKR planning. No complaints about the last review cycle or about the upcoming one.
All the ceremony must be replaced with process optimization, skill extraction, harness development and new model evals.
Still better than dealing with people, but only just.
Totally! But you know what? There are many, oh so many developers that are not ready, don't like and probably are not even cut for this kind of position.