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Yeah this tracks with what I've seen too. As a note people with 100+ direct reports are not really managing them. Often it'll be indirect as in there are 100+
by Dave3of5 4y ago
Yeah this tracks with what I've seen too.
As a note people with 100+ direct reports are not really managing them. Often it'll be indirect as in there are 100+ people in a hierarchy below you. You might only mange 10 people but they manage 10 people and so on.
In terms of reporting your "team" is all 100 people even though you may have never interacted with half of them other than an introduction.
- blagie 4y ago"Managing" wasn't meant to imply "direct reports." I don't think I've ever met anyone with 100 direct reports (although I can see completely routine roles where that might happen -- Uber/Turk/etc. can exist with zero human management).
- Dave3of5 4y agoYes that's what my comment was. Often it's 100 people below them. The % of time managing any of these people is low. FYI twitter seems to be moving to a low manager high employee count. Musk himself said that a ratio of 1 manager per 10 coders is way too high. I suspect he wants it at 10x that amounts. My current manager has 31 direct reports. Sorry if this is confusing it's a hard subject to describe over text and I think there is a lot of nuisance lost over text here.