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My boss says we don't need any engineering managers. Is he right
I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around…
On the other hand, the manager-free experiments I’m aware of (e.g. holacracy at Medium and GitHub, or “Choose Your Own Work” at Linden Lab) have all been quietly abandoned or outgrown. Evaluating managers can be very hard, especially in the near term, and making decisions about when it’s time to create or pay down organizational debt is a whole nother ball of wax, and way outside the scope of this post. However, if you have 40 engineers all reporting to one VP, and nobody else whose number one job is the outcomes related to people, teams and org, I feel pretty safe in saying this is not a risk for you at this time.
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