How Many Hours a Week Should a Team Lead Spend With an Engineer on Their Team to Help Get Them to the Best Place for Them?

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How many hours should a team lead spend with an engineer on their team to help get them to the best place? "I don't think this is something that we should be massively investing in," he says. If you have 18 members and you're spending an hour a week, that's eight hours for one manager. And I say that's not that much of an investment"

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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