This is exactly why I think that managers are counterproductive to the success of technical products and should not have the authority to make these kinds of decisions. If you can&#x27;t solve problems, you have no business managing people who can. If I&#x27;m really making the decisions, I shouldn&#x27;t have to give up credit for the decisions I&#x27;ve made, or make someone else feel like they were useful when they weren&#x27;t to feed their ego.<p>Managers in many tech companies are just secretaries who somehow were given titles, authority, and pay that makes it seem like they are the decision makers, when in fact their only value is to handle the paperwork and PR so that the actual problem solvers can solve the problems. It&#x27;s unfortunate, because it&#x27;s really holding our entire industry back.