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The maximum upside of the management track is definitely higher but the chances of achieving it are far lower. If your span of control is 8, that means only 1 i
by shalmanese 7y ago
The maximum upside of the management track is definitely higher but the chances of achieving it are far lower. If your span of control is 8, that means only 1 in 8 of your managers will become a manager of managers and 1 in 8 of those will become a director and so on. Unless you're in a hypergrowth environment, the other 87.5% will struggle to move past the first management rung for a significant chunk of their career.
- pmiller2 7y agoIt also means less job security should one find oneself out of a job for whatever reason. A company needs about 1 manager per 8-10 ICs, and 1 second level manager per 8-10 team managers. Logically, that means there should be about 10% as many first level manager positions as IC positions, and about 1% as many second level positions as IC positions.