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I’m a manager of managers at my current big tech employer and here we are still required to be quite technical. I’d think that a startup 1/25 the size would ben
by danrocks 5y ago
I’m a manager of managers at my current big tech employer and here we are still required to be quite technical. I’d think that a startup 1/25 the size would benefit from this approach, hence my surprise. I don’t know how to do pivot tables though.
- akerl_ 5y agoMaybe a hot take: if you have a Manager-of-Managers role, you aren’t a startup any more.
- dilyevsky 5y agoThere are startups with over 50 engineers you know ;) At sr manager role you are for sure not technical though even if you did get asked coding/design questions in interview loops (there are exceptions)
- x0x0 5y agoYou'd need more like 300+ to have a manager-of-managers who isn't a director or VPE.
- aahortwwy 5y agoAt what point does an organization stop being a "startup" and become a "private company"?
- dilyevsky 5y agoObviously it’s pretty tricky to define but I’d say anything that doesn’t have an already established or rapidly growing customer base/revenue is a startup. If you can shutdown all r&d and it’s still going to be viable business for a while then it’s not a startup
- toomuchtodo 5y agoWhen its inertia has reached a point where it can continue to succeed not because of its actions, but in spite of them.
- arpa 5y agowhen you become consistently profitable and sel-sufficient.
- bigbillheck 5y agoWhen it stops taking VC money?
- akerl_ 5y agoI disagree. If you have 50 people, you’re just a business
- speedgoose 5y agoA company with over 50 engineers that wants to be seen as a startup is a red flag for me. I usually stop reading their job postings as soon as I can detect this.
- dilyevsky 5y agoIs every job posting you look at is for a company that runs a version of lamp stack and 90% of workforce is sales? Then, sure
- speedgoose 5y agoOf course not.