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seems pretty normal to me.

Engineer -> team leader -> director -> VP -> CXO

To add to the sibling post: 5^5 is around 3000. So 5 engineers have a team leader, 5 of them are under a director, etc... So 5 layers sounds about right for a Twitter sized company.

I might expect that at Google, but Google also has 20 times the employees.