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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by treis on Sunday January 08, 2023 @08:27AM (#34298928)
>My understanding is that they still try to limit the number of managers

IMHO this is really the point. Somebody has to hire devs, run the evaluation/promotion stuff, facilitate communication to/from upper management, and so on.

I've just never been to a place that couldn't do that with 1/2 to 1/3 of the EMs they have. For whatever reason the standard is one EM per team. A better ratio is on EM per 2-4 teams.

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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by jensensbutton on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:59AM (#34311023)
Then don't be surprised when you don't get promo's because the manager responsible isn't familiar with your work.
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