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>plug into a position like lego blocks Every time I hear someone from big tech talk about being a "L"-something (or in this blog they're "E" levels), I wonder
by finnthehuman 6y ago
>plug into a position like lego blocks
Every time I hear someone from big tech talk about being a "L"-something (or in this blog they're "E" levels), I wonder if they know they sound exactly like the bureaucracy talk of the US Federal Government employees and their "GS" "E" or "O" levels.
- mandevil 6y agoFor better or worse, when you get to a certain size you absolutely NEED that level of bureaucracy. You can't get 120,000 full time employees plus probably another 100,000 contractors to work together without establishing a clear hierarchy that everyone inside it understands. A smaller company can have different approaches because they will have a dense network of employee relationships, and can work together off of those relationships. However, at six figure employee scale by necessity you will end up with a very very sparse matrix of employee relationships, so you have to have something else to get results.
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoA lot of really big companies have super flat hierarchies when I worked at one we had MPG2, MPG4 then Senior Management U,T,S Promotion was brutal you might have 20 MPG4 slots every 18 Months for the entire Division (60k FTE) - just getting to the Board Stage was tough enough. I think a MPG2 was equivalent to a Captain an S was a Grade 7 (GS15 in US terms I think) Full Colonel
- pc86 6y agoYou just proved the GP's point. Whether the hierarchy is flat or not is irrelevant, they still have the bureaucracy around leveling and authority/responsibility.