Late reply. My point is not number of reports, but number of people. A directorate might have 25 managers, and maybe 200 developers. Of those developers 4 or

Late reply. My point is not number of reports, but number of people. A directorate might have 25 managers, and maybe 200 developers. Of those developers 4 or 5 might be staff/principal, and it might be as small as 1 or 2, or even zero. So far fewer people move up the technical ladder than up the management ladder.