At GitHub, I had 38 direct reports. That singular situation probably prepared me more for understanding how to run very large companies than a lot of other things. And yes, it's the totality of my experiences made me who I am. But would I've ever been a very good product engineering design type of like meta CTO if I didn't have that experience? You know, probably would have been a lot harder to become that person.
Jason and Eiso explore the implications of Mark Zuckerberg's plan to flatten Meta's management layers and examine the current ratio of engineers to managers, questioning if this balance is truly efficient or if it's simply a byproduct of Silicon Valley culture.
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