This is a new phenomena that is unfortunately gaining a lot of traction in Silicon Valley. I used to work with guys who know and love your guys and all the other guys who have the blogs and the tweets and the meetups and whatnot.
I actually left my last startup because they hired an engineering manager who was more into test/code ratios and migrating to the latest deployment framework instead of fixing longstanding user complaints. 6 months after I left, the (easy to implement) features our users were complaining about are still not up on the site, and I see job postings looking for a new engineering manager.
I actually left my last startup because they hired an engineering manager who was more into test/code ratios and migrating to the latest deployment framework instead of fixing longstanding user complaints. 6 months after I left, the (easy to implement) features our users were complaining about are still not up on the site, and I see job postings looking for a new engineering manager.