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I don’t understand. Literally every company I’ve ever worked for, successful startup included, had at least an engineering manager reporting to a director repor
by Ancalagon 4y ago
I don’t understand. Literally every company I’ve ever worked for, successful startup included, had at least an engineering manager reporting to a director reporting to a VP reporting to a senior VP reporting to a CTO. Is this not a normal or good way of doing things?
- smsm42 4y agoStartup with 6 levels of management? What kind of a startup is this? In my experience, working in startups for a couple of decades, this is nothing like normal.
- hintymad 4y agoIn AWS, many orgs have manger to senior manager to director to VP to SVP to CEO. It looks AWS is really well managed if startups have the same structure.
- mehwoot 4y agoI work for a company of ~200 total employees with ~30 in engineering and the org chart for an engineer goes Individual Contributor -> Manager -> VP Engineering -> CEO. 4 total layers, 2 of managers.
- danieljacksonno 4y agoI think the difference is not in the amount of layers between an IC and the top - but the amount of layers between the customers and users and the top. As long as c-level still keeps on touch with reality outside the org and doesn't depend on truth being filtered through four layers you might have a chance