Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager?

Need some real life advice and stories from experienced folks.

I’ve been working for few years in a large company (think faang as a good approximation) in one of the departments under 1 manager. Relatively good one.

Then by the will of higher ups some teams got drastically reorged and I ended up in a different team with a new manager. Terrible one.

Micromanagement, lack of vision, poor communication, poor planning, zero support, full package. About half the team share similar view. The other half seems like just playing along.

To add more context the overall management culture in the company is neither toxic nor great. There is definitely hierarchy and go over her head doesn’t sound like a good idea. Internal movements are basically non existent.

I still care about the mission and about what I do. Though not as much as before this all happened.

What would you do in my shoes to make the best of the situation?

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Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager?

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