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		skj on Feb 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Being an Engineering Manager > In fact Google's top employee, Jeff Dean, manages nobody. Not true. He has VPs as his direct reports and thousands of indirects. Maybe it was true at one time, even in recent years. But not now.

btilly on Feb 17, 2019 [–]

Thanks for the correction.

I am pretty sure it was true in 2010. I wonder when it changed, and why.

tomnipotent on Feb 17, 2019 | [–]

In 2011, when he started the Google Brain initiative.

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