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Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year

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574 points frays | 2 comments | 27 Aug 25 21:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.467s | source
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chickenzzzzu ◴[28 Aug 25 04:57 UTC] No.45048533[source]▶
I currently am an "individual contributor" on a very large (15+) "game team". It is hilariously inefficient to have one manager supporting that many people, as the manager just makes decisions based on heuristics and buzz words. They almost always make the wrong decision, and we just silently ignore those decisions. Since they're so busy, they don't notice.

I have advocated many times and been told no for a situation like, "hey I know a major core problem we need to solve, give me one extra engineer in addition to myself and maybe a part time tech artist and we can deliver this to you."

It is repulsive how many large corporations follow such outdated and rigid processes, and follow the logic of "more engineerer betterer"

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1. fuckaj ◴[28 Aug 25 07:56 UTC] No.45049611[source]▶
Managers of 15 shouldn't make lots of decisions. The team should come together and use decision processes to make good decisions. Manager makes sure individuals are growing and are able to contribute at that level.
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2. chickenzzzzu ◴[28 Aug 25 08:01 UTC] No.45049637[source]▶
I agree with you. Based on what others have said about this article, it sounds like Google doesn't agree with us.

If anything, I would go further than the "two pizza" team sizing. Teams should be no larger than 4 people, one of whom is a lead who is extremely well compensated and is held to extremely high standards, else they are shitcanned ASAP.