And why are first line managers Directors?
At most other companies Directors at least second line managers.
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Shielding incompetence from accountability is expensive and requires multiple levels of protection.
Directors reporting to directors are the first to get cut.
@ck love the circle!!!
because HR is stupid and ties pay to title. Only way to pay engineers or platform architects real-world wages is to make them directors. This then sets precedence for other teams to have a bunch of people-manager directors all circlej--king each other and passing back and forth the same copilot written slop which bubble up to a high level executive summary that is just a word salad and doesn't actually say or mean anything, but it sounds good on paper and provides a vague enough guardrail so that the next outage isn't their fault because technically what they had a clanker write could have been interpreted as sufficient risk mitigation.
there's teams with three lines of directors reporting to each other!