Tag: careers
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The engineer I kept promoting anyway
A management story instead of an architecture one. I found Andrew in our company's training lab and over four years promoted him from student to architect. He was reliable, independent, technically excellent, and great with peers and customers. He was also, to exactly one person, a persistent pain: me. The Friday-evening complaint calls, the mailing list he quietly unsubscribed from to needle me, the HR conversation that backfired, and the promotion committee that needed an architect I happened to be. How I learned to manage for the team's output and not for my own comfort.