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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: 0.001s | source
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bsenftner ◴[27 Aug 25 23:17 UTC] No.45046483[source]▶
Next up: super frustrated ex-google PMs complaining "that's not how it's done at Google" at their new jobs.
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duxup ◴[28 Aug 25 18:47 UTC] No.45055587[source]▶
Lotta folks out there are heavily invested in "process" to the point that they can't see anything outside process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTuLbiIVDpk

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1. utyop22 ◴[29 Aug 25 12:14 UTC] No.45063054[source]▶
Lol I went through a few FAANG Pm interviews for the lols.

Ah trust me - its actually insane how every firm manages to pull this off - the secret sauce that made the company what it was evaporates and the management optimise for process.

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2. duxup ◴[29 Aug 25 17:37 UTC] No.45067102[source]▶
I kinda get it. Process is something you KNOW you can pull off. Code is ... open for interpretation, anything is posible, lots of unknown.

And it's tempting where you institute processes to prevent "well that won't happen again".

But man process really doesn't really contribute a great deal anyhow.