I work for a tech start up that has scaled very quickly. I joined when the company was at about 200 employees and in less than a year, we’ve doubled that. Using linkedin, I found that 30% of our staff is C-level, VP, or director which sounds absolutely insane to me. I cross checked this with 2 of our competitors and I found the following.
Company A: ~250 employees : 26%
Company B: ~1200 employees: 14%
We top our competitors in upper management ratios with both larger and smaller staff. I’m not sure how our ratio has changed as the company grew, but the reason I looked up this information was because of the lack of awareness from upper management on what our major daily roadblocks are and constantly having to do work outside of my scope and having difficulty finding people who can get me what I need - but this may be unique to my specific role so I don’t want to attribute my anecdotal experience to the equation. Is this a grossly top heavy company?
#Tech #startup #management
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As company grows even further, depending on how leadership perceives, some of the top-level is cut off (my experience). At this phase, you will hear Radical Candor or some cool framework, how people who got you till here may not take be the same people who can take it to the next level, so peasants are not scared of a looming layoff. Then new VPs, Directors come in who either really take the company to new heights or take it to the streets. If it goes to streets, they are cyclically changed and it goes on.