Got an offer from Etsy as a director. TC is on the lower side What’s the typical team size of a director? How many directors are there in Etsy? Is it a big role? Does director get a sizable office? Does it come with an EA? YOE:7 TC: 520
I thought Etsy paid well?
What job family and org?
What’s the offer numbers?
Team size: newly promoted start with 3. Typical may be 4-5? There are a lot of directors at a 1000+ eng org. No sizable office for directors, sorry. VPs get that. No EA at the director level, not even a shared one.
1000+ doesn’t seem accurate to me. The whole company is like 2500 people. More like 50-100 if engineering job family and for non-engineering, it can be like 5-10 people.
Mike Fisher, our ex CTO, had publicly shared the 1000+ figure. LinkedIn Premium today reports 920 under Engineering.
Your only job will be sucking up to higher-ups. You don't need an EA for that.
Thanks for the info! As a senior manager in Amazon, you are a manager of managers and can have like 20 -40 SDEs in your org. A director normally manages senior managers. I wonder if a director only gets 3-4 reports then on Etsy what happens to senior managers there? Is it just a title inflation?
The number of reports is between 10 and 100 for directors. There are few with L8+ scope. Most have scope similar to L7 at Amazon. Don't be fooled by low stock price. They will tell you if you join at this price you will be rich. But, this is a company being run by lunatics at c level. Stock may even go to zero.
Would you expand the running by lunatics bit? I thought Etsy is a people centric organization
Think what that means as a director. Your reports are people. Their reports are people. Your peers are people. Your boss and your boss's are people. There's 40+ people you impact. You are 1 person who is likely to get feedback from all those people. Your job is to make sure that feedback is good because if it's not then you're making people unhappy.
7 YOE - Sr. mgr at Amazon? Hmmm.. Is this for real?
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What is your current title at Amazon ?
I'm guessing they're a senior SDM.
Sr manager