And why are first line managers Directors?
At most other companies Directors at least second line managers.
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Agreed - directors should always have minimum of 3 managers.
The concept of technical director is silly. Too many. Scratch the architecture dept not needed too much overhead across STS any area not supporting applications should be outsourced
Shielding incompetence from accountability is expensive and requires multiple levels of protection.
Directors reporting to directors are the first to get cut.
@ck love the circle!!!
because HR is stupid and ties pay to title. Only way to pay engineers or platform architects real-world wages is to make them directors. This then sets precedence for other teams to have a bunch of people-manager directors all circlej--king each other and passing back and forth the same copilot written slop which bubble up to a high level executive summary that is just a word salad and doesn't actually say or mean anything, but it sounds good on paper and provides a vague enough guardrail so that the next outage isn't their fault because technically what they had a clanker write could have been interpreted as sufficient risk mitigation.
there's teams with three lines of directors reporting to each other!