My current spot is pretty sweet. Lead engineer means I’m not actually responsible for others actions. But I get major say in what happens and can delegate work to the team. Pay increase and such too.
Department structure makes no sense to me.
VP
Manager who has 2 direct reports
My manager who has 2.5 direct reports including me
I think they added the sub positions because the single manager was inundated with meetings and couldn’t actually keep track of anything. So the split the department and also gave 2 senior engineers a shot at entry manager positions. Now those 2 guys are loaded with bs meetings and have no time to work. So it didn’t solve anything and just removed 2 workers from the pool lol and it’s causing us to be behind on everything. We have like 8 open positions between the 2 departments.