If you work in tech, your manager might still care about your career. They just might not have enough time to do much about it.
Across tech, the Great Flattening has meant fewer managers overseeing larger teams and racing to keep up as the industry remakes itself around AI.
The result can be less time for managerial work that doesn’t produce an immediately visible result: coaching employees to help them figure out where their careers are going.
The days of “purely pastoral managers” running teams of five or six are over, said Paddy Lambros, founder and CEO of Dex, which uses AI to connect software engineers with employers.
At the same time, he…
