Once you have your head count projection, you need to identify how many individuals you want each manager to support. This number particularly depends on your company’s working definition of an engineering manager’s role. If engineering managers are expected to do hands-on technical work, then their teams should likely be three to five engineers (unless the team has been working together well for a long time, in which case things get very specific and hard to generalize about). Otherwise, targeting five to eight engineers, depending on experience level, is pretty typical. If you’re targeting
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