I work for one of the big energy companies in the UK. We've had a new CTO join who has stripped out all crafted based management layers in favor of generalist managers who will manage 25-30 people. I have never seen this anywhere before. Anyone else think it's nuts to expect someone to line manager such a large group and also manage a cross-functional group - everyone from Product Managers, to Engineers, Data people etc

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That is pretty nuts. What is the exact role of these managers? Just people management and performance management? It's pretty hard to drive a group of 30. You would need to break them into teams/squads but even then you will need team leads of sort

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Well people and performance management as well as project management. Its crazy! And because they didn't get enough people applying for the roles, they now don't have enough people so one poor guy has nearly 50 DRs.

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That’s nuts! Companies are looking at all opportunities for cutting cuts & increasing the financial returns to stakeholders/ senior leaders. This is just another way for them to do that. There is no world that this manager is capable of nurturing & empowering ppl under him to shine. I would expect a lot of “performance issues” being highlighted for the huge disconnect. Personally I want to be under a leader that will advocate for me. Similar thing happened where I am. My skip level used to have 15 in the team but in the past year due to combining multiples teams/ areas now has close to 45. It’s crazy! I don’t recommend

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