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Being promoted to Sr roles is always great but when in management what do you do as a 'Senior' TC: 200k
Less stupidity, complex issues, greater breadth and scale. You don’t learn, you already have skills.
Absolutely not true.
Pretty sure you have dealt with clumsy folks.
It's the easiest role. You dont have the responsibility of a director nor pressure of a manager and you are well paid.
Please elaborate with an example? This would be 6 at Meta/Google and 7 at Amazon right?
Sr Mgr is E7 at Meta.
Sr manager is not a line manager.. usually is a manager of managers. They are responsible for building teams to solve organizational issues, ensuring teams are not stepping on each other and encroaching on others territory. They have a way to build an empire to provide tech services and applications which provide an important business capability catalog. They are mostly dealing with people promo and ensure right projects are getting done. They are nearly psychopaths who can drive effective change without remorse of making hard decisions.. such as who to fire and who not to promote.
This
Speaking as a senior manager (non FAANG), once you're in the seat it becomes pretty obvious who to promote and who is dragging the team down. People tend to like their peers and don't see that the bottom rung person isn't just ineffective, they often make everyone else's job so much harder. So it tends to be less sociopathic when you have insight into everything.
Manager of managers
At Amazon an L7 line manager is called “Senior Manager.”
At amazon, L7 managers are the business, they’re basically ceo and the directors / VPs are their board of directors. It’s probably a big reason we’re so effective. That and you build everything as a service so each L7 can fully function independently their little empire
I like the answer the actual Sr Manager in this thread gave. This answer sounds like a caricature.
Take more money compared to a manager. Can be more effective in ruining peoples life compared to a manager and sending them to therapy.
😊 nice
Senior manager manages managers.
Sr manager manages managers and manages up their manager while micro-managing their managers directs.
Depends on the company. In some companies a “manager” has responsibilities over a certain group that may not be their “direct reports”. A senior manager has to do performance reviews, handle discipline as well as , employee development, make sure trainings are complete , handle escalations etc.
So basically do nothing?
Full disclosure, a Sr Manager at Verizon is paid effectively the same as an IC Manager. So all the responsibility of management, none of the pay.
In large companies there are so many people that they create layers of leveling to give a sense of progress and have pay bands across them. In general all you need are ICs, managers, directors, executives. As companies grow they start creating layers at each level.
This is the answer
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Build An Empire.
They have one more colony than a peasant manager.
What about Jedi?