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sulam a day ago

I've supported moving people from IC to manager easily 50+ times in my career and never once has it been to limit the damage someone can do.

Also, this is not a promotion, it's a role change.

Edit: btw, the premise is completely wrong. Managers can cause far more damage to teams than an IC on the team can cause.

jamesfinlayson 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Managers can cause far more damage to teams than an IC on the team can cause.

Yep, and a bad manager tends to last a lot longer than a bad individual contributor.

nzeid a day ago | parent | prev [-]

The edit is dead on and this is the very first thing that crossed my mind.

Bad managers hollow out companies. It's quite devastating.