Are there multiple tech leads per one people manager? Correct. My manager has 4 TLs reporting to him. My TL has a team of 7 not including himself, which is act

Are there multiple tech leads per one people manager? Correct. My manager has 4 TLs reporting to him. My TL has a team of 7 not including himself, which is actually on the higher extreme. My previous TL had a team of 4 which is more typical. For career/HR-y management aspects I interact 1:1 with my manager for those, as does my TL. TLs will naturally offer career guidance/mentorship informally by virtue of technical seniority (where applicable) as well as feedback to managers and promo committees that will feed into conversations regarding the technical readiness for promotion for someone on their team. I have a reservation with tech leads who stop writing code as in my experience they'll stagnate (the time frame is maybe 2,3 years). TLs at Google stay quite technical (and mine certainly does) and write code as a routine matter of course.