> At a large corporation, that's the manager. Definitely not at FAANG. One day you are told your product is super important, the next day it gets destaffed and

> At a large corporation, that's the manager. Definitely not at FAANG. One day you are told your product is super important, the next day it gets destaffed and your manager is as confused about this as you are. On the other end of the totem pole there's SVP who might see the spreadsheet columns which dictate this kind of decisions but is too far from the line workers to have any clue about their reality.