alt Hacker News>removing up to three layers of management in some functions so leaders are closer to the work.
I wish them the best of luck with that plan. Middle management is where the institutional knowledge sits on how to actually get shit done despite challenges & broken processes/systems.
It's an even worse plan than eliminating juniors.
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Not with 8 layers of it. Institutional knowledge lies between managers and engineers and maybe one layer above that, not further
Middle managment is also where most of your negative feedback is lost. I think moving fast in general needs tighter feedback loops and this is simply not possible in large organizations.
> Middle management is where the institutional knowledge sits on how to actually get shit done despite challenges & broken processes/systems.
Really? In my experience it's the rank-and-file employees who have this knowledge of how to get on with it without ceremony and politics. And the broken processes and politics are created BY the middle managers.
middle management is hired to delegate but persists mostly grow itself and its influence
Not really. Middle management is there to be in meetings all day long with nothing produced but identifying low performers.
GitHub was famously flat and far more successful than them.
Middle management is also why there’s so many broken processes and challenges in the first place.