Levels.fyi data: ByteDance runs 28 engineers per engineering manager, top of Big Tech
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-08
Levels.fyi used submission data (minimum 150+ engineer and 30+ manager submissions per company) to estimate engineer-to-engineering-manager ratios across big tech as a proxy for organizational flatness.
- ByteDance tops the list by a wide margin at 28 engineers per EM submission.
- JPMorgan Chase and Google also rank near the top, a surprising result.
- The author argues long-standing team ratios are being rewritten by AI and plans a follow-up report on AI labs' org structures.
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