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Lumifer comments on Open Thread April 16 - April 22, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 17 April 2014 04:25:26AM 2 points [-]

Just to give an example, I have seen a few competent but unexceptional engineers become CEOs and CTOs over a few short years in a growing company, while other, better engineers never advanced beyond a team lead, if that.

Being a manager is a radically different job from being an engineer. In fact, I think that (generalization warning!) good engineers make bad managers. Different attitudes, different personalities, different skill sets.