Queen of Cups — The Engineering Manager Who Still Codes

▲ Upright +2

The manager who knows what the deploy actually contains because they read the diff. Queen of Cups leads with empathy and technical credibility — the 1:1 where they ask how you are doing and then also catch the race condition you missed. They shield the team from the org chart while keeping the code honest. This deploy has adult supervision.

▽ Reversed -1

The engineering manager who 'still codes' as a way to avoid managing. Queen of Cups reversed is the leader who would rather fix the bug themselves than have the difficult conversation about why the bug keeps happening. The team has no feedback, no growth, and no idea where they stand — but the manager's commit graph looks great.