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>>If your manager is not a software engineer himself you will have even more stress.

Someone should do something about this. Certain other professions, such as the law, protect workers from incompetent management, in many jurisdictions.

It might also attract more people to the profession if you knew your boss had done something similar.

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On the other hand, not all managers with a tech background have good people skills to manage engineers.

I don't think its so much people skills to manage engineers, more like people skills to talk to the managers above (i.e./ CEO). I think this, too, would be an interesting topic to delve deeper into.

On top of this, if they think "he's slow, I could do this in 5 minutes", burning out becomes a lot easier.

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