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In what I've seen, this generally comes from top management, the board even in some cases. They set the agenda and approve budgets for everything the company do
by potamic 3y ago
In what I've seen, this generally comes from top management, the board even in some cases. They set the agenda and approve budgets for everything the company does. Head count is a direct translation of this. In normal scenarios, head count becomes the bottleneck and limits how many things can be taken up for a given year. But during the pandemic, dollars became plenty and execs reached deeper into their wish list and triggered a hiring frenzy. Middle management rarely has a say in these matters. They only need to come up with plans that can ultimately fulfill management's agenda.
- vkou 3y ago> In what I've seen, this generally comes from top management, the board even in some cases. They set the agenda and approve budgets for everything the company does. They do, but they are often blind, due to fog of war, of what actually happens in their firm. Middle management controls that - by deciding on what kind of line-work (which they have visibility over) gets rewarded or prioritized. If the line engineers are spinning their wheels, doing architecture-astonaut nonsense for the sake of promotion, that's not because the CTO is rewarding it - it's because their 100-person director (who should at least vaguely know what each of their reports is doing this year) is.