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They have 2800 employees with 5-10 reports per manager.
by malaproping 6mo ago
They have 2800 employees with 5-10 reports per manager.
- gizmo686 6mo agoAt 8 layers of management (so 9 layers total, with the bottom rung being non-management), 3 reports per manager comes out to 6561 employers on the bottom rung. At 5 reports each, that 8 layers would give you over 300k at the bottom, an 10 each would give you 100m at the bottom.
- CoffeeOnWrite 6mo ago> We’re flattening our organization because eight layers is too deep Eight layers total
- marcosdumay 6mo agoSo... That's the assumption that would give you 300k employees with 5 reports per manager. Sum of 5^x for x in [0, 7] is ~300k. The GP miscalculated it.
- Aurornis 6mo agoMathematically that would work out to a lot less than 8 layers of management. I wonder if they have 5-10 employees per manager at the bottom of the org chart, but a lot of middle managers and manager-like titles mixed through the middle.
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- swiftcoder 6mo agoIf its anything like the other tech companies, you'll have a bunch of overworked low-level managers with 20+ reports each, and then somewhere up the chain you'll find directors and VPs chilling with 1-2 reports
- vkou 6mo agoSolution: fire half the line managers, and make the rest also do IC work. If anyone has a VP-level position open, I'm willing to send you my resume. There is a salary level at which I am willing to do work entirely without shame.
- IshKebab 6mo agoThat's a really crazy number of employees considering they have one product that barely seems to change and is at best on par with similar products created by comparatively miniscule teams (Phabricator, Forgejo).
- feisty0630 6mo agoIt would be interesting to see the breakdown on technical vs non-technical roles. I can't imagine it takes even 50% of that to actually develop the product.
- malaproping 6mo agoThere are 800 on the engineering team
- malaproping 6mo agoGitLab is a way more complex product
- 20after4 6mo agoPhabricator (now Phorge) was developed by a team of 2-3 people for most of it's life, with a little help from several moderately active contributors like myself. Gitlab is a really big conglomeration of services and daemons and tools written in multiple languages. It's approximately an order of magnitude more complicated than the relatively straightforward and (IMO) well designed Phabricator architecture.