cope. there are probably some more efficient companies out there where they cant get away with it, but best believe there are tons of middle management roles like this that literally just get by day to day asking developers on their progress, and then regurgitating that message across emails and meetings. the rest of their time they hide behind windows update problems and training. ive seen it several times myself. people are sneaky about it and of course never admit it, and often times the manager above them is doing the same thing, so it becomes one big productivity ponzi scheme.
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