Breitfelder: Google found moving top coders to bad managers collapses performance
Matt Breitfelder · Matt Breitfelder – Optimizing Investment Performance through Human Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.323) · Jun 26, 2023 · at 57:42
Matt Breitfelder, Head of Human Capital at Apollo Global Management, cites Google's internal people analytics research on management quality.
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“They ran studies where at Google there's a project called Project Oxygen where their hypothesis was maybe managers are so bad we should just eliminate the role. So let's test what are the characteristics of a great manager and does it even matter? And they found what I think we'd expect them to find, which is a great coder reporting to a good manager if you move them to a bad Manager, their performance collapses.”
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