Engineers at Google deeply believed that managers don’t matter. On the face of it, that may sound preposterous. But you have to understand how much engineers hate management. They don’t like managers and they certainly don’t want to become managers. Engineers generally think managers are at best a necessary evil, but mainly they get in the way, create bureaucracy, and screw things up. It was such a deeply held belief that in 2002 Larry and Sergey eliminated all manager roles in the company. We had over three hundred engineers at the time, and anyone who was a manager was relieved of management
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