> 7 layers thick of management feels like too much to me

Yeah, so having more than that was banned. They didn't say you need 7 people between employee and CEO, just that there shouldn't be more than 7 people between them.

When you ban something you want to allow reasonable levels so you take a reasonable level, pad a bit, and ban that unreasonable level, so you agree.

But, also note for large companies, like 100k people, you need around that many layers or managers will have too many people to manage each.

yeah, max 7 layers. And I don't think it applied to interns :)

And the company was much much smaller.