As a senior employee. This is just the opposite of what I would expect.

(I’m not the author of this)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146451

As a senior employee first at a startup from 2018-2020 and then as a staff engineer at a consulting company for the last year (with a 4 year at BigTech detour between), no one really micromanages me.

Even at the consulting company, when I am on a project, I just put 40 hours in Salesforce with the project I’m assigned to - with no details - or put “bench” - again with no details.

Why would my company care? The customer is happy, the project is managed through Jira (where I as the lead create the tasks) and my company gets paid when the project is done.

I am sure I ask for feedback after every project in our peer review system.