People managers will either be offered to go back to IC or let go. Is this true? With AI what's the role of managers anymore?
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I've noticed that work (dev) is much more problem/solution focus with AI: you know what? that's great! Really it's about damn time there was a reckoning at the management layer(s), it's been enough cr-p for too long. The ultimate irony for me is that the gibbering gibbons that are the 'management layer' between me and customers are the biggest AI evangelists and yet they are the ones most at risk by AI.
Yes baby. thats what i heard next will be the Managers and Directors and others. You don't need that many managers to manage people. only a few more months away for another lay off.
NetApp is hilarious for this. They have one of the most bloated org charts I’ve ever seen. They are the opposite of a flat org with so many layers of useless SVPs, VPs, Directors, Sr, Managers. Meanwhile, the small scrappy competition is out there eating their lunch.
@bz don't forget the nortel-cartel
Oh no! What I will I do without a controlling, nitpicky, Dunning-Kruger reject from [Cisco/Pure/Meta/Amazon/Microsoft/HP] constantly throwing half-baked garbage at me to work on generated by sh---y CoPilot Prompts? /s
Honestly they need to get rid of the SVP layer, most out of touch, unqualified and redundant layer in the company.
Good. They should have gone before the ICs. Most of them are totally useless and only know how to manage upwards and check boxes.
It can be hoped for. Managers in my BU are mostly terrible that do more harm than good.