Ask HN: Those in smaller tech companies, what's your org chart? Is it working?

Ask HN: Those in smaller tech companies, what's your org chart? Is it working?

4 by vocoded | 0 comments on Hacker News.

I manage engineering for a company that's grown from about a dozen people to around 70, more than half of which is in product and development. Our structure has evolved organically during that time, primarily centered on technology-based teams (mobile, web, backend, etc), however we recently pivoted to an interdisciplinary product-oriented model. In the course of evaluating this change I was surprised by the lack of available reference points - there are numerous opinion pieces on org design, but real world examples are few and far between. Those of you in companies of 50-200, how is engineering structured? Is it effective? What would you change?



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