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Most micromanagers don't know their engineers consider them to be such.
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this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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I had a new VP start and immediately was DMing me on slack asking for details on every thread i was in.
3 months in and continues the trend but then started having 1-1s with my team to further get details and question the decisions being made
6 months in I had a talk wiht him about this level of micromanagement as it still had not changed and it was all "I have no idea" "I don't feel like i'm being that bad" "I don't agree"
7 months in I'm looking for a new job and his boss is asking "why" after i informed him since the interview and constantly over the last 6 months that I could tell he was a micromanager type
I feel for you. My director likes to tell us how to solution things (i.e. how to develop software) because he was a dev long ago (not even an architect) and he has an aneurysm every time we say, "but this way is better." He'd rather arm wrestle with other teams to make his process the best process than let us do something that works just as well within the current landscape. I also demo to him WAY more than the people that will actually use the product (i.e. internal teams).