There's been a lot of talk about flattening the org, removing reporting layers and operating more like a tech company.But are we really going to see fewer VPs, Sr Directors and Director 1/2 positions?Or will most of the cuts still land on ICs while management gets shuffled around? Some of these orgs have more layers of management than actual people doing the work. Not sure if delayering is actually happening or is this just another reorg with different boxes on the org chart... It would not be the first time they do sh-t like this...
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@a2 Manager->Senior Manager->Director 1->Director 2->Director 3->VP 1->VP 2-> Executive VP. ---> which one of these you think is adding value. The whole thing is a joke, and do you agree that executive mgmt is non-sense? Keeps things Moving across orgs? How many of these are doing this job?
Should get rid of the Lift Labs as well.
they want to align with more of a startup feel and tech company structure. if you look at mckinseys playbook with meta and dell and te middle management and administrative roles that are most likely to be cut. manager with less than 5 direct reports will be cut or forced to revert to being individual contributors
there’s plenty of managers and directors that have 3 or less people reporting to them. those teams should be consolidated
hahaha, the entire co is deadwood. 2% of folks do 99% OF WORK.
Not all management layers are useless. A good director handles escalations, shields the team from executive nonsense and keeps things moving across orgs. Get rid of the wrong people and suddenly your engs spend half their day in meetings instead of engineering. Now the deadwood issue: The problem isn't the number of managers... The problem is figuring out which ones actually add value.
ill trust it when I see it we've been through how many reorganizations now - somehow the ics keep disappearing while the same leadership ends up with new titles and slightly different reporting lines. You can eliminate 3 layers of approvals today and probably get more work done. whatever...