Comment by smcleod

Comment by smcleod 10 months ago

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I don't know how true it is I've heard that the ratio of managers to engineers has been increasing over the last few years, if that's true this policy lines up with what we've seen from management-heavy / inverted triangle org cultures

jarpschope 10 months ago

> Inverted triangle

That can't be the case my man. Even if there was a manager for every two employees below, the number of all managers at all levels would at most be equal to the number of employees at the lowest level given that:

x (lowest level) = x/2 (first) + x/4 (second) + x/8 (third) + ...

In reality, there are way more employees per manager and the levels of management is not infinite, so the ratio of managers to employees is way less than 1.