I've had bosses I loved and bosses I couldn't stand in my 20-year career, but I never dealt with so many bad ones in such a short stretch. Most of them somehow ended up during my current four years at Synopsys. Not a single positive experience with a manager since I joined.
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Hopefully Sassine is reading this : the problem are not first level managers, those are the closest to the real contributors and are somehow stuck in between wolfs and sheeps.
The problem start at senior managers to directors level, they are just making everything to stay there, not specifically the best things.
They probably have been there for a while and would keep sabotaging any good ideas that might be shallowing or threatening them.
Some seasoned wolfs would even take the ideas, and get rid of the sheep that brought it.
I think you understand politics enough to see what I mean Sassine 😉
It’s time to do the real cleaning otherwise it will be too late in the coming months.
ps: any manager who is thinking now about themselves while reading, you are a tr*le
Ansys Marketing is rife with managers who sacrifice their subordinates or engage in workplace harassment to protect their own interests. They produce no results and are merely shielded by some form of authority. Just can't figure out why they still haven't been laid off.
ICs that are promoted to managers and don't actually wanted to become a maanager but only go there for scope increase or the money are usually not great managers. A good IC will usually recognise his/her error and ask to become IC again.
Another set of bad managers are those that reach the position through string pulling. Those are the worst. Because they are forever in debt to the person that put them there and will do damages.
I wish snsps had a process for direct reports to grade their managers anonymously.
@1dq don’t worry… those low level managers gonna be gone, soon…
Will it help with any of the rampant issues discussed here?
Doubt it.
We’ll see.
@10e Most IC converted managers are cancers to the company. They have technical skills, but they lack people skills.
The managers at my team were constantly thinking only of their own self-preservation; they took credit for their subordinates’ achievements and, whenever things didn’t go their way, shifted the blame onto their subordinates. Severe workplace harassment was rampant.
Despite the fact that the company hadn’t produced a single achievement worthy of recognition over the past years, the director and managers were fiercely protected. They forced all subordinates they disliked to resign or were transferred to other locations.
However, the powerful figures who had been backing them are all gone now. Next, it’s their turn to be fired. The time has come for them to pay the price for doing whatever they wanted all this time.
There are no managers at SNPS.
Only individual contributors who are promoted to manager.
They want resources to do tasks they don't want to do.
They don't care to your career.
And ultimately they will take benefit of your job done for their own career.
Have you tried internal job rotation program?