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> This is made worse by inexperienced managers who are now offloading management and project management responsibilities to their direct reports.

I thought this was just the currently orthodox management style in startups. Senior people manage themselves, junior people are guided by seniors, projects get managed by the people executing them. Management limits themselves to higher-level strategy. I've seen this from most of the managers I've had in the last, say, 5+ years. I prefer management that keeps in touch with the work that their reports are doing and knows enough to raise concerns, make suggestions, and make decisions when the team can't reach consensus, but I don't think that's how most people see the job of managing software developers right now.

It's certainly not limited to the Valley. Employers of all kinds are putting the squeeze on workers, with productivity up, but not giving us much to show for it, wage-wise [0]. What can you do? Individually, probably not much, but communication is always key to set expectations and prioritize your deliverables.

0 - https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

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