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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by rwalle on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:42PM (#34700916)
I guess you have never been a manager.

There is no way you can manage 10 engineers and still have good technical knowledge of what they do and provide directions.

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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by icedchai on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:58PM (#34701119)
I have, though the team size was 7 (company ran out of cash.) 10 may be too many. But 4 is way too small.

Also, I want to add that the team with the manager of 4 engineers, he provided no technical direction. That was my job as the "tech lead."

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