Sorry bro, talk is not always cheap.
The story
“My manager’s job is easy, he only joins meetings and tasks our team and then collects results” “ my friend said.
“I talked to a few developers in my team, they also think so”. He added on.
“Do you know what your manager’s meeting is about?” I asked.
“Yes, of course, they get the work from our engineering team and then present it to upper management, collect credits, and build up his relationship”.
“That’s all?” I asked.
“Yes, and you know that talk is cheap, he never showed us the code, but owned it many times than us”. he complained.
“Hmm actually your manager’s work is more than that, let me explain”.
In our language, as a developer.
Deliverability and glue code
We are developers. we write code to integrate. there is one special kind of code we write many times — glue code.
As an engineering manager, one of his/her jobs is to “glue” all the work done by different teams together.
