Coinbase seems to have an extraordinary number of managers for the number of engineers who are actually shipping code. I think there are situations where directors were managing 3-5 ICs while taking home near 7 figure total comp. This layoff corrects some of the issue, but is likely still not aggressive enough (at least for the management stack) for the market we're in. Much of the staff hired through the last two ye…
I can’t imagine having much of anything to do if your job is “management” and you have 3 to 5 ICs….
Incident Command (NIMS) best practice is that someone's effective span of control is 3 to 7 people, with 5 being optimal. Beyond that, you lose the ability to easily keep track of people's status.