My manager at Google probably had about 15 direct reports while I was there. But he also had 4 or 5 dev leads working for him. I tended to think of him as my

My manager at Google probably had about 15 direct reports while I was there. But he also had 4 or 5 dev leads working for him. I tended to think of him as my second-level manager, although in hind-sight, that was probably a mistake, since I don't think he saw it that way.