I never understand what “fire all the people managers” _actually_ means. Presumably, someone is in charge of hiring and firing and all the hr stuff and people development, and presumably that’s the people they promoted into roles formally held by managers?

I think he kind of alluded to it, but I wish these oeiple he would explain it instead of the clickbait “we fired all the managers”. I assume he means, he changed the expectations such that managers are expected to be held accountable and heavily invested in work output (the implication made since he talked about promoting tech leads into those roles) and then managed out the people who didn’t fit that description.

I do agree with the headline, but inevitably he says “we fired all the managers” and I don’t think that’s strictly speaking true to his point. Promoting all your best if’s to manager’s can be the best way to lose some of your best IC’s (either because they hate managing people or they hate being managed by a terrible manager)