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So they finally figured out most managers are not just useless, but literally a drag to the company and progress?
This is old news and refers to the 15% figure that was announced last year (more than 6 months ago!) and for which the "layoffs" are already completed. Overall, nothing at all happened, managers looked after their own kind and the worst that happened for some was having to go back to IC positions. The article is most likely AI generated since it says this was announced "last month" and the article is from March, but…
How do the cost savings work then?
Who lays off the engineers now?
So they finally figured out most managers are not just useless, but literally a drag to the company and progress?
No now just senior managers are supposed to pickup the slack and drag the company behind on there own. and also program managers & useless product managers. jokes apart, long ago when I was there, once somebody did the internal org site scraping and found out in our org there were almost 6 workers (status givers) to 1 status takers. and sr. engineers are supposed to 'manage themselves', so really full of political BS…
I continue to find it so bizarre that they are the same company.
So they finally figured out most managers are not just useless, but literally a drag to the company and progress?
In my experience, the worst of them are lodged in there tighter than trichinella larvae.
Most managers are human ticket classifiers.