One of the sad realities that I witness almost every day is when genuinely good IT people are overlooked by inexperienced management or human resources teams. Or, these existing good people find themselves being shown the door due to their manager’s inability to work with technologically-minded people. This happens extensively in the realm of growth companies and even in some start-ups. The push to become big and behave as a bureaucracy sometimes becomes incorrectly perceived as tantamount to success.

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