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> Google tried this, notoriously dense grating and then firing basically all the managers at an all-hands. That didn’t work out well at all...

When did this happen? Sounds absurd. I’d love to read more if anyone has a postmortem or other sources.

>>thih9+(OP)
It wasn't "Google", it was Larry, apparently on a whim of the moment. It wasn't managers in general, it was project managers. And as I understand it, the project managers were called right back in, so Google was actually never run without them.

That happened in 2001, and is arguably the reason Eric stepped up to take the reins from him.