I hate to identify my employer this precisely, but you can likely guess it from other things I’ve posted, and perhaps just from this. Please don’t out me in any easily-searched way; I like my deniability.
I’ve been 15 years at a very large retail/tech company which has become truly gigantic during my tenure. There are 8 salary levels between entry-level programmer and CEO, and reporting chains of 7-10 are not uncommon for skilled workers (including chains like CEO-SVP-SVP-VP-VP-Director-Sr.Manager-Manager-Manager-IC). Number of salary levels here is ludicrously smaller than normal, but reporting chains are, if anything, deeper than other big companies I know of.
I would be interested to hear the names of companies that have 25 levels of reporting structure. That’s insane.
Thanks for the explicit info. (While I certainly won’t out you, it’d probably fine if you slightly randomized each of the information to make it harder to pin down, if you haven’t already)
I have more thoughts about how this fits into Zvi’s model but I think makes more sense to wait until a future post.
I hate to identify my employer this precisely, but you can likely guess it from other things I’ve posted, and perhaps just from this. Please don’t out me in any easily-searched way; I like my deniability.
I’ve been 15 years at a very large retail/tech company which has become truly gigantic during my tenure. There are 8 salary levels between entry-level programmer and CEO, and reporting chains of 7-10 are not uncommon for skilled workers (including chains like CEO-SVP-SVP-VP-VP-Director-Sr.Manager-Manager-Manager-IC). Number of salary levels here is ludicrously smaller than normal, but reporting chains are, if anything, deeper than other big companies I know of.
I would be interested to hear the names of companies that have 25 levels of reporting structure. That’s insane.
Thanks for the explicit info. (While I certainly won’t out you, it’d probably fine if you slightly randomized each of the information to make it harder to pin down, if you haven’t already)
I have more thoughts about how this fits into Zvi’s model but I think makes more sense to wait until a future post.