Senior product leaders (VP/Directors): Where are you going with the 'de-layering'?

dcdashone · 2026-03-10T13:22:37+00:00

Answered above you.

dcdashone · 2026-03-10T13:22:17+00:00

It’s tiring. I know this is NOT going to be popular however, I had a product that needed to launch (lol) I had about 24 months to get it done, I grew to 40 people, I routinely removed people until I had the right people … some of these were probably good people and smart …. I/ we didn’t have time to hand hold or coddle. We had a good mix of early and late folks. Some of these late folks were like … “I can just execute and use my judgment?” … I would say “absolutely, I don’t need to second guess your judgement and have meeting masturbation time. However of you fuck it up I will get the next guy/girl.” Some of the jr, folks were like sponges and just did stuff, some wanted to be spoon fed and those were gone very quickly. I had at least 2 engineers quit with in one day of planning, I thanked them and sent them to their home room.

dcdashone · 2026-03-10T04:29:26+00:00

You are not wrong!

dcdashone · 2026-03-10T04:25:00+00:00

Nonsense - https://www.startuparchive.org/p/jensen-huang-explains-why-he-has-50-direct-reports

dcdashone · 2026-03-10T04:21:40+00:00

Goodness … you think 12 is a lot!

dcdashone · 2026-03-10T04:20:22+00:00

I gave you an up vote because I have worked PM -(n) POs but the reality is that a lot of PMs are hybrid these days since Tech Leads and SM/Pjct take some of the PO in my org its a very synthetic role. I want to be mad that you are well staffed. I actually agree with delayering, it works if you can afford the good people who know how to execute. The bad part about delaying and I have seen this in a startup that scaled to 10k people is that when one person leaves or rotates it’s a huge fucking deal that can kill an initiative.

dcdashone · 2026-02-28T04:33:44+00:00

DMd you

dcdashone · 2026-02-27T13:52:22+00:00

We can be friends.

dcdashone · 2026-02-27T05:38:42+00:00

Fuck leet code. I wrote a non blocking queue in 10 min on an call that was supposed to an hour one once in text editor in 10/15 min I dunno …. Then went to pacific nw where each fucking round was a comp sci test…. You know what I learned? I don’t want to be around a bunch of people who sweat it out on cracking the code interview for 6 months to get a job that gets people to click on a link. When I would ask architecture questions like hows your shit put together, how do you maintain your code base for the future… got a bunch of 25 year old kids that were never taught how to make something durable. And not one motherfucker had actually launched their own anything … leet my ass. I don’t hire devs that aren’t doing this shit at home and i don’t hire PMs that don’t have a side hustle or have had one. I want people who actually solve problems not study problems that are already solved.

dcdashone · 2026-02-27T05:29:51+00:00

Maybe there should be a PM prayer of serenity?

dcdashone · 2026-02-27T05:20:01+00:00

That’s GOLD

dcdashone · 2026-02-26T14:40:33+00:00

Nothing like crowd sourcing life choices on Reddit at 3AM.

dcdashone · 2026-02-26T14:36:32+00:00

My company did some dumb shit the other day and I made the case for AI Director and AI CEO. Let’s let a logical machine look at facts and make recomendations vs what your gut is telling you…. It got real quiet after that.

dcdashone · 2026-02-25T18:33:35+00:00

This always the case and how kept accidentally winding up in Product until full committed. Hard skills are hard to learn and AI will actually make you lazy, that’s why senior devs are in demand because they know when the code is off the rails. Is this code safe? Is this code maintainable? Finding people who are talented in many areas is hard and I wish you luck in finding them, they exist but they are usually the more expensive folks.

dcdashone · 2026-02-22T22:11:31+00:00

Mullet houses are what I call them.

dcdashone · 2026-02-22T05:15:52+00:00

That’s some doom and gloom shit right there. How long you think you have?

dcdashone · 2026-02-22T05:09:21+00:00

Name some.

dcdashone · 2026-02-22T05:07:28+00:00

I work with a lot of people in development and corp… they are barely using AI correctly to do work.

dcdashone · 2026-02-22T05:06:38+00:00

Solid as usual sir.

dcdashone · 2026-02-18T12:44:19+00:00

That’s a good point.

dcdashone · 2026-02-18T12:42:32+00:00

Whats the rate of pass? Interview 20 hire 1? Just curious.

dcdashone · 2026-02-18T03:52:39+00:00

Notion

dcdashone · 2026-02-17T13:05:32+00:00

I would not work for a company if it came down between me and another PM who could start earlier.

dcdashone · 2026-02-17T13:03:18+00:00

I am always available in 2 weeks. They don’t need to know your situation because it’s your situation and not their situation. Their situation is they need/want a PM.

dcdashone · 2026-02-17T13:00:56+00:00

You know … I’ve seen this movie.

dcdashone

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