That just reminded me of something I hated about a large consulting firm I used to work for. When doing the “laddering” (aka ranking people for promotions and raises), we had to justify why people deserved to be ranked higher than everyone else.
The people in that meeting were soooo full of shit. You’d have people claiming that their brand new analyst fresh out of college was managing a team of 100 people. Meanwhile I’m like “my new guy wrote some good test scripts and didn’t say anything dumb in front of the client.” Just couldn’t compete with all that BS.
In some industries you can be a supervisor with 100 reports. Job titles are so asynchronized even in similar types of companies that they’re virtually meaningless without company specific context.
I had 100 people reporting to me as a VP in a global bank. It’s still nothing. It’s all about relative size.
100 people in a company of 1000? Real VP.
100 people out of 100k? Middle manager.
That just reminded me of something I hated about a large consulting firm I used to work for. When doing the “laddering” (aka ranking people for promotions and raises), we had to justify why people deserved to be ranked higher than everyone else.
The people in that meeting were soooo full of shit. You’d have people claiming that their brand new analyst fresh out of college was managing a team of 100 people. Meanwhile I’m like “my new guy wrote some good test scripts and didn’t say anything dumb in front of the client.” Just couldn’t compete with all that BS.
In some industries you can be a supervisor with 100 reports. Job titles are so asynchronized even in similar types of companies that they’re virtually meaningless without company specific context.
How do you manage having 100 reports? It sounds like a ton of work. I don’t know what working in a bank is like though.
Layers. I managed managers of managers of people
They aren’t direct reports, probably 2nd or 3rd line manager.
In my company (not a bank) each manager has around 5 direct reports, but up to 15 is not unheard of, depending on the duties.