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> the person supervising you has at least an ounce of development experience.

In my experience, they were a developer for a couple of years 15-20 years ago and while they might think they're still a developer, they're generally more clueless than a manager who has no development background.

The absolute best manager's I've ever had were one's who still did at least some active development on the product. I know that's hard for a manager to fit in to a busy schedule but I really feel like there should be concessions made in the organization for this to happen.



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