[catchnear4321]

11 layers is plausible.

you think your job to be harder than management?

sufficiently harder to make you irreplaceable?

are you sure?

[nine_zeros]

> you think your job to be harder than management?

If management is spending more time on PIP/promo/process BS as opposed to strategy with the product, project, services and coordinate resources outside their empire - then yes - my job is significantly harder because I am having to shoulder that burden as well as keep services alive as well as implement features as well as coordinate work

> sufficiently harder to make you irreplaceable?

Replaceable to who? The company? Probably - if they are able to value engineering beyond the mere words of their management.

> are you sure?

Confident. Because next time there's an outage causing loss of revenue and loss of customer trust, none of the 10 layers above me will be able to save the company.

Imo, I would love a world where management will have to show a lot more value. That is the price of organizational authority.

[catchnear4321]

you miss the point. if your work can be automated, you can be replaced, and the nature of your work becomes irrelevant - as it can be automated.

> but there is more to it than code

who said code?