The Golden Ratio of Manager to IC

In today’s shocker , Meta is to “create a new applied AI engineering organization aiming for an ultra-flat structure of up to 50 employees to one manager”. Like all software engineers I, too, tend to apply a data‑driven, mathematical approach to every problem in the world. Yet I would have chosen a more romantic number and applied the golden ratio: roughly 1.6:1, the proportion that shows up in…