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>management is the best path to money, competence and effort be damned

Basically every German company ever. ICs be dammed.

Where management is literally the only career path in almost every company.

And you get promoted until what you do changes so much that you’re not good at it anymore, so you can’t justify another promotion and you remain a middle manager.

This is called the Peter Principle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

I wonder if that’s why Google has so many badass ICs in Germany.

Since when is Google a German company?

Very big engineering presence in Munich, also Zurich (which I realize is not Germany).

I would say the worst are those who like the power and authority management titles provide.

They're not the worst, they're just a waste of money, they could just not exist and probably everyone else would be better off. They're a -2.

That said, there are plenty of managers who put in a lot of effort into ruining everyone else life to satisfy their ego or what their understanding of the job is. They're -100000.