Good managers are hard to find and once you have them, they should be appreciated

Hire the right managers → appreciate them → see your culture blossom!

Intro

Something that is scarce is also highly worth → this is definitely true for good managers.

It's similar to other roles like PM, Tech lead, and Team lead. With managers, it's that more important to have the right ones, because they have a BIG impact on others around them.

Let’s get more into that next.

Why are good managers so important for an engineering org?

The reason is that managers:

• have a big impact on the organizational culture,

• are assigning responsibilities and delegating ownership,

• are responsible for coaching and mentoring their reports.

It's really important to realize that Engineering is a lot more about people than just tech. You can read why that is true here: Engineering is more about people than tech (paid article).