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A good engineering manager is worth their weight in gold. Sadly, a good engineering manager is hard to find.

That may be related to the fact they are not paid their weight in gold.

We try, but Compensation Committees tie our hands (99% of the time it's for good reasons, but it's not fluid enough to help that 1% outlier you REALLY NEED).

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