Re:Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering M...
by shalmanese on Friday July 26, 2019 @01:18AM
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The maximum upside of the management track is definitely higher but the chances of achieving it are far lower. If your span of control is 8, that means only 1 in 8 of your managers will become a manager of managers and 1 in 8 of those will become a director and so on. Unless you're in a hypergrowth environment, the other 87.5% will struggle to move past the first management rung for a significant chunk of their career.
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Re:Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering M...
by pmiller2 on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:30AM
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It also means less job security should one find oneself out of a job for whatever reason. A company needs about 1 manager per 8-10 ICs, and 1 second level manager per 8-10 team managers. Logically, that means there should be about 10% as many first level manager positions as IC positions, and about 1% as many second level positions as IC positions.