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[quote=Anonymous]Details are that I am responsible for assigning tasks to all the engineers in my group. There is one engineer who came to us from a hiring manager as very good and was given quite a healthy salary. I mention salary because it is demoralizing the group of engineers who make less and are far more capable. The issue is this hiring manager is an English major and knew nothing about this engineer's actual skills. Turns out I can't even assign the most simple of tasks to this person, even after 18 months on the program. This engineer requires constant help from my few senior developers which wastes time. I've even tried basic training which doesn't sink in. I'm also in an awkward position as not being a manager.

Is it OK for me to tell the person's manager that I can no longer assign tasks to them as they provide no useful work and also go to the program manager and tell them the same? Managers in my company manage around 30 to 40 engineers so they largely don't know what is going on and rely on the team leads. I also worry this may come back to me as my own failure to not set this engineer up for success. [/quote]

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